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Visiting Artist Lecture: Gwen MacGregor
Oct 3, 2023 01:00 PM
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02:00 PM
AA 303
Registration Deadline: Oct 3, 2023 12:00 PM
Caption: Gwen MacGregor Treelines Here and There (detail view), 2023
Placemaking: Building Communities through Art
Artist Lecture with Gwen MacGregor
Community is an important part of being an artist and conversely, artists build community, define place, and keep culture alive with their work. Thinking through the elements of placemaking-citizen well-being, reliable public transit, and the overall vitality of a community-VALS 2023-2024 invites 9 artists to speak about the impact of community on their practice, the pivotal role placemaking serves in their works, and the ways in which artists actively build, maintain, and champion their communities.
**Registration closes at 12pm the day of - please arrive in person if you'd like to attend past the registration deadline.**
Gwen MacGregor is a visual artist and geographer working across the disciplines of installation, video, photography, and geographic scholarship. She has artworks in collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Oakville Galleries, and the Royal Bank Collection. She has exhibited extensively internationally and has also participated in numerous international art residencies including the International Studio Curatorial Program in New York. She is a Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award holder and is represented by MKG127 in Toronto. In 2023 she had a solo exhibition at The Nickle Galleries in Calgary, Alberta. MacGregor is a PhD Candidate in Geography at The University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores the constructions and contestations of nationhood in contemporary art practices presented at The Venice Biennale and Documenta.