Created in partnership with Arts AccessAbility Network of Manitoba

Creative Accessibility Across Canada

Creative Manitoba, in partnership with AANM, is proud to present a series of talks about creative and curatorial practices within the sphere of disability and accessibility.

Black Triangle Arts Collective

Tuesday, October 8th | 12 to 1 pm | Online | FREE

E. Sweeney and Syrus Marcus Ware– founders of the Black Triangle Arts Collective- will be joining us to talk about their work in research, creating and presenting exhibitions, sparking dialogue and developing curatorial practice from intersectional and disability-informed perspectives. They strive not to duplicate artist/curator relationships, but instead intentionally disrupt these power dynamics through ​processes that are interdependent, empowering, and built on divergent strengths and weaknesses​.

***  ASL interpretation will be provided  ***

E. Sweeney is a visual artist, arts professional and curator. She is also a neurodivergent queer of Acadian settler decent, who grew up in rural Nova Scotia. She has a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University (2001), a B.Ed from the University Of Ottawa (2005) and an MA in Critical Disability Studies from York University (2012), where she focused on disability art and contemporary curatorial practice. E. frequently presents and guest lectures on the topic of art criticism, activist museum praxis and contemporary disability arts. She is a founding member of the Black Triangle Arts Collective and in 2019, E. was awarded a two-year Chalmers Art Fellowship for her project Premise/Shift.

E. shares her time between the traditional unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg (Ottawa, ON) and Miꞌkmaq peoples (Mavillette, NS).

Creative Accessibility Across Canada is a series of workshops that will explore disability art, the experiences of artists with disabilities and how to make art accessible. These workshops are not only for emerging artists with disabilities, but arts organizations and artists at all levels of their career with and without disabilities.

Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba is a regional not-for-profit artist run charitable organization dedicated to the full inclusion of artists and audiences with disabilities into all facets of the arts community.