Digitizing Your Art

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Digitizing Your Art

Hear from artists Yung Yemi and Samar Hejazi and learn how to document your work, present it digitally, and share it virtually.

By Neighbourhood Arts Network

Date and time

Thu, Apr 22, 2021 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Do you know how to leverage your experience as an artist working in public spaces after the installation and performance ends?

Digitizing your art through photography and sharing your creation process helps make your work interactive and available online to those who can’t experience it in person. Hear from artists Adeyemi Adegbesan (AKA Yung Yemi) and Samar Hejazi and learn how to document your work, present it digitally, and share it virtually in this 1.5 hour hour webinar that will support artists of all disciplines who exhibit their work in public spaces, through shared learnings about documenting your work.

Presented by STEPS Public Art and Toronto Arts Foundation’s Neighbourhood Arts Network, this workshop is offered as part of the 2021 CreateSpace BIPOC Public Art Residency through Neighbourhood Arts Network’s Making A Living Making Art program.

ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email eva@torontoarts.org by April 15, 2021 with any other accessibility requests.

Sold out? Email eva@torontoarts.org to be added to the waitlist.

About the Artists

Adeyemi Adegbesan is a Toronto based photographic artist whose practice aims to examine the intersectionality of black identity. Reflecting on blackness through pre-colonial – colonial - present day and future timelines, across regions, religions, varying levels of income, and political lines; Adegbesan interrogates the dichotomy of the richness of black experiences with the imposed societal homogeneity of ‘Blackness’. Through his work Adegbesan pulls from these varying elements to create Afro-futuristic portraits that embody history, future, and culture all in one.

Samar Hejazi is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Toronto. By channeling her ancestry through the historical choreography found in traditional craft practices, Hejazi observes the complex conversations between conceptual ideas of social construction and self identification. She uses her art to examine how the crossing of cultures forms new ways of identifying oneself while exploring the development of cultural narratives.

Organized by

Neighbourhood Arts Network

We are a  Toronto-wide network of over 1800 members, including artists, arts organizations, cultural workers and community-engaged agencies working throughout all of Toronto, from North York to Scarborough.

Neighbourhood Arts Network takes on a variety of activities, from an interactive website with member profiles, events and projects creation, in-person networking and professional development events, advocacy, shared resources, research, and on-going partnerships with social service agencies, city departments, libraries and more.

Members receive a monthly e-newsletters with links to job opportunities, blog posts, events and member profiles. The Network creates tools for advocacy and promotion including printed directories and videos profiling member's projects.

The Neighbourhood Arts Network is a strategic initiative of the Toronto Arts Foundation.

 

 

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