Awards

Deaf and Disability Materials, Ontario Arts Council (2024)

Non-Tenured Award for Leadership in Teaching (2023)

Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council (2022)

Exhibition Assistance,  Ontario Arts Council, (2 - 2022/23)

Ontario Arts Council, Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Individuals. (2020-21)

Manitoba Arts Council grant for “COVID-19 Anxiety in the Age of the Anthropocene”, Co-Applicant Joanna Black (PI) (2020-21)

Creative Works Project Grant for “COVID-19 Anxiety in the Age of the Anthropocene,” University of Manitoba, Co-Applicant, Joanna Black, (PI) (2020)

Canada Council for the Arts - Strategic Funds and Initiatives Digital Originals (PI)(2020-21)

Seed Development Grant, OCADU for COVID-19 anxiety: Investigating social and political implications of “location,” “refuge,” and “loss” in the Anthropocene (PI) (2020-21)

Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grants: (approx. three/year to a yearly total of $2000 -1989-present) 

Gaitskell Award, Canadian Society on Education through Art, 2018, CSEA – outstanding lifetime contribution to research and teaching in art education.

Deaf and Disability Visual Art Materials Grant, Ontario Arts Council (2018, 2020)

Belleville Community Arts & Culture Grant (2017– mentor WIAprojects for Candace Wilkins)

Inspired Teaching Award, Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre (FCDC), OCADU (2014)

Toronto Arts Council Project Grants for WIAprojects (2012/13, 2013/14) 

Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, UTSC/WIAprojects, University of Toronto (2011-12) 

Cultural Pluralism and the Arts, UTSC, University of Toronto (4) (2010-2013) 

Canada Council Travel Grants (2) (2005, 2008) 

Ontario Arts Council, Visual & Media Arts Project Grant (2002) 

OISE Graduate Bursary for PhD, University of Toronto (1999-2000) 

PhD Scholarship, University of Toronto (1993-95) 

Writer's Recommender Grant, OAC, Second Story Feminist Press (1993) 

Creative Artist in the Schools, OAC (3): (Feb. 1984, Dec. 1984, Oct. 1986) 

Playwright Recommender Grants (2), OAC, Factory Theatre Lab, Nightwood Theatre (1984) 


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I have a BA in Fine Art & Theatre, MEd in Art Education and  a PhD in art education and cultural theory. These have been activated as reflective sites that have supported an active and varied career in art, art and design education, art curation and writing. Positions have ranged from directing the Fibre Exchange at The Banff Centre, to teaching in education at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and now as Assistant Professor, Art & Design Education Lab, in Cross Disciplinary Art Practices,  Director of 113Research (a research creation galley), and Co-leader of Creative Research Inclusive Practices (CRIP) Lab all at OCADU. I am also a  research fellow in graduate education at NSCAD and Artistic Director for the feminist community-based program WIAprojects where I curate exhibits, program events, and publish monographs. As a queer disability performance and visual artist, I have exhibited and performed across Canada and internationally, solo and as ARTIFACTS with Leena R...
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