This event will be held on Zoom. It is free and open to everyone, but registration is required.

Contemporary visual art exhibitions are well poised to contribute to conversations about climate change, yet too often they are part of the problem they critique. Independent Curator Katie Lawson will present reflections on both practical and theoretical considerations of how exhibitions are shaped by climate change discourse and address key knowledge gaps that remain in creating, caring for, and presenting art in sustainable ways. As a team member of the Centre for Sustainable Curating, Lawson will share accessible resources to lessening the environmental impacts of exhibition making. A question and answer period will follow.

Closed captioning and live transcription will be available through the built-in Zoom CC and Transcription features. ASL Interpretation can be arranged upon request. Please contact Hannah Keating at [email protected] to submit an interpretation request by October 16, 2024. All efforts will be made to fill a request, but if an Interpreter cannot be secured, we will let you know before the event takes place.

Is there anything else we can do to support your participation? Please reach out to Hannah at [email protected].

About the presenter:

Katie Lawson is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has curated exhibitions for City of Barrie (2024); Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2024); Images Festival (2023); Toronto Biennial of Art (2022 + 2019); MacLaren Art Centre (2021); the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2018); the Art Gallery of Ontario (2018); Y+ Contemporary (2017), and RYMD Reykjavik (2017). Lawson was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency in 2023.

Katie is a graduate of the Master of Visual Studies Curatorial program at the University of Toronto, where she previously completed her Master of Arts in Art History. She is currently working towards a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University, and a team member of the Centre for Sustainable Curating.  She contributes to a range of print and online publications. She was the Editorial Lead for the Toronto Biennial’s double catalogue Water, Kinship, Belief (2022) and was the Art Editor for the Hart House Review (2016-2019). 

The Artist Professional Development Workshop series is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.

This event will be held on Zoom. It is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ld-qgqz4rHdG2xKxA30ZO5KuknnSluwr5.  

As the role of the curator becomes increasingly diffuse and expansive, Katie Lawson will reflect on the exhibitions she’s worked on recently to explore the questions, challenges, and best practices that have informed her work as an Independent Curator. Sharing examples from personal experience, she will explain how she has cultivated collaborative relationships with artists, with a focus on new artwork commissions that have been iterative and/or site-responsive. Following Lawson’s presentation, audience members will invited to contribute to a guided discussion period.

Closed captioning and live transcription will be available through the built-in Zoom CC and Transcription features. ASL Interpretation can be arranged upon request. Please contact Hannah Keating at [email protected] to submit an interpretation request by October 16, 2024. All efforts will be made to fill a request, but if an Interpreter cannot be secured, we will let you know before the event takes place.

Is there anything else we can do to support your participation? Please reach out to Hannah at [email protected].

About the presenter:

Katie Lawson is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has curated exhibitions for City of Barrie (2024); Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2024); Images Festival (2023); Toronto Biennial of Art (2022 + 2019); MacLaren Art Centre (2021); the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2018); the Art Gallery of Ontario (2018); Y+ Contemporary (2017), and RYMD Reykjavik (2017). Lawson was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency in 2023.

Katie is a graduate of the Master of Visual Studies Curatorial program at the University of Toronto, where she previously completed her Master of Arts in Art History. She is currently working towards a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University, and a team member of the Centre for Sustainable Curating.  She contributes to a range of print and online publications. She was the Editorial Lead for the Toronto Biennial’s double catalogue Water, Kinship, Belief (2022) and was the Art Editor for the Hart House Review (2016-2019). 

The Artist Professional Development Workshop series is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.