Category: Interview

Anonymous’ Art

Component Exploration: Anonymous’ Art All I Want is Love by Anonymous Anonymous (he/him) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I’m trans. BIPOC. Well, not BIPOC, Punjabi. I’m a person of colour. I’m not out to my family, I still live at home. And I guess I’m low-income marginal. I recently graduated from university. I wanted my …

Maria’s Art

Component Exploration: Maria’s Art Intimacy, a play by Maria Link to full script Maria – Artist’s Statement and Reflections “I’m driven for that which makes us uncomfortable, breaks what we know, scares us, and challenges us. I hope to dedicate my life to telling the stories of those people that do not follow a neurotypical …

Wren’s Art

Component Exploration: Wren’s Art Song Disorganized by Wren (Verse 1) Can you come over tonight? I want to hold you one more time Just don’t look into my eyes Or leave before saying goodbye I want to be good to you Not this scared mess I know I don’t feel right But I don’t feel …

Z.D.’s Art

Component Exploration: Z.D.’s Art Study with Me with ADHD by Z.D. Description: An exodus from the clean, clear and minimalist monopoly on your every day studyspo content. I’m happy to bring you a candid ode to maximalism and messiness. An ADHD Study/Work with Me! Come join, support, n hang out :). Expect an unapologetically messy …

M.C. Cruz’s Art

Component Exploration: M.C. Cruz’s Art A Series of Paintings by M.C. Cruz M.C. Cruz (they/them) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections M.C Cruz is a child of Chilean immigrants. Born, raised and currently based in Toronto, they also lived two years in Chile and more recently completed an Artist Residency in Morocco and Spain. They attended …

Rose’s Art

Component Exploration: Reflecting on Rose’s Art It Too, Will Change by Rose Rose (they/them) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I am a digital media artist, multiply disabled. I am Indo-Gyuanese and English descent. [An] interesting thing I’ve been doing recently is getting into film poetry, which is something I’ve wanted to do for a long …

Hope’s Art

Component Exploration: Reflecting on Hope’s Art Painting by Hope Hope (they/them) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections Bringing all the symbolism from my two cultures in one thing is kind of a tricky thing. This one is a native ancestor, Jewish ancestor, native ancestor, Jewish ancestor, Jewish, then these two images are native. I’m going to …

Component Exploration

Component Exploration – Claiming Space Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online Namitha is a racialized young woman with a disability. The first component presented is her poem “O,C,D.”. The second component is an excerpted set of Namitha’s thoughts on her work as a spoken word artist, navigating mental health differences in her family, her experience …

Component Exploration 2

Component Exploration 2: Jane Doe Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online Kiran Shoker is a young South Asian Canadian woman. The first component presented is her poem “Jane Doe,”  is about the South Asian female body as a colonialized entity. The second component is an excerpted set of Shoker’s thoughts on her poem taken from …

Component Exploration 1

Component Exploration 1: “Cheers to Capitalism” Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online C.J. is a young Asian-Canadian woman. The first component presented is her poem “Cheers to Capitalism,” which is about the racial and gender stereotyping she has experienced in the workforce. The second component is an excerpted set of C.J.’s thoughts on her poem …