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Daryl Vocat is a visual artist living and working in Toronto. He completed his BFA degree at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, and his MFA degree at York University in Toronto. His main focus is printmaking, specifically screen printing. He works out of Toronto’s Open Studio, where he is also an occasional screen printing course instructor.
He has had solo exhibitions in Toronto’s Open Studio, SNAP gallery in Edmonton. Eastern Edge Gallery in St John’s, James K. Bartleman Art Gallery in Elliot Lake, Ontario, The Wilfred Laurier Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario, and Malaspina Printmakers Gallery In Vancouver. He has also participated in several group exhibitions both in Canada and Beyond.
Vocat, who is also a writer, has written art-related articles for Xtra!, Shameless Magazine, and Dose magazine in Toronto. He has also had various articles printed in a number of smaller, independent publications. His artwork has been published in the YYZine from YYZ Gallery in Toronto, and recently in a book titled Printmaking at the Edge published in Great Britain.
Karen Campos is an Edmonton based graphic designer. In LOTERIA she uses the format of a Mexican game of chance called loteria or “mexican bingo” to bring together images that are significant to her experience as both a lesbian and a Salvadoran immigrant. The images, when situated together tell a story of migration, loss, and desire. This piece is functions as a work of reconciliation between a Latin self that finds herself silenced within the queer community and a queer self that finds herself invisible within the Latin community. Within the context of a city street in Alberta, this piece is markedly foreign, inciting consideration of the racial and sexual norms that shape our public spaces. Special thanks to Katherine Friesen for support and critique.
Anthea Black is an artist and cultural worker based in Calgary, Alberta CANADA. She has attended NSCAD, ACAD, The Banff Centre, and several conferences on contemporary art and Artist-Run culture. Her projects have been exhibited throughout Canada and as part of Gestures of Resistance curated by Shannon Stratton and Judy Leemann at Grey Matters Gallery, Dallas TX. She has an upcoming exhibition at TRUCK: Contemporary Art in Calgary and a residency at the Society for Northern Alberta Printmakers (SNAP). In 2007, she launched looking for love in all the wrong places, an independent artist-curatorial project that commissions and produces posters by queer artists for public spaces.
She is the visual arts columnist for FFWD Weekly and her writing is published regularly by Bordercrossings, FUSE Magazine, and through Artist-Run publishing initiatives in Calgary and beyond. She writes and lectures on radical crafting practices with Nicole Burisch, and their work is forthcoming in Extra/Ordinary: An Anthology of Craft and Contemporary Art edited by Maria Elena Buzek for Duke University Press. As part of her strong professional commitment to the National Artist-Run network, she has held positions as the Director of Stride Gallery, President of M:ST Performative Art Festival, as a board member of the Calgary Professional Arts Alliance, ARCCC/CCCAA, and the Arts and Culture Granting Committee at The Calgary Foundation. She is currently working on the Editorial Committee of FUSE Magazine, as a co-editor of Shotgun-Review.ca and on the 10th Anniversary program committee for Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Megan Morman grew up in a small town in rural Minnesota. In 1997 she moved to Canada and studied sociology and gender studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Since then she has worked as a freelance designer, and is currently the volunteer coordinator at AIDS Saskatoon. Much of Megan's recent practice wrestles with questions of belonging and "recognition by one's peers". Megan is particularly interested in art/cultural communities and the ways that group membership is established through storytelling and gossip; other art interests include artistic labour, sidekickery and obsolete craft. She is currently obsessed with plastic canvas needlepoint. Megan's project Calgary Super Bingo will be presented during Artcity 2008.
Interdisciplinary and performance artist Cindy Baker considers context her primary medium, working with whatever materials are needed to allow her to concentrate on the theoretical, conceptual and ephemeral aspects of her work. She considers her art to exist in its experience, and not in its objects. Despite a formal education in painting and printmaking, she considers her non-formal training and research in gender culture, queer theory and art theory to be as important in her development as a contemporary artist. Some of Baker’s biggest interests are skewing context and (re)examining societal standards, especially as they relate to language and dissemination of information, and she perceives a need for intervention and collaboration, both within the art world and in the community at large.
Having been Programme Coordinator at AKA Gallery in Saskatoon from 2000 to 2008, as well as having worked at Latitude 53 Society of Artists and Harcourt House Arts Centre, volunteering and sitting on the board of several artist-run centres, Cindy has a particular professional interest in the function of artist-run centres as a breeding ground of deviation.
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have collaborated on performances, films, videos, publications and public art projects since 1989. Their provocative, humourous, feminist performance art pieces have toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and their art video and film works have been screened in venues ranging from women’s centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
image credit: 24 Hour Anti-Racist Zone photographed in Kensington, June 2007; QUEER REVOLT and french postcard ladies by Erin Legare and Anthea Black; postered image of Fraternity: Diaspora, NYC; Tisha B'av by Tobaron Waxman from LTTR Number 4 Do You Wish To Direct Me?
