Thank you Ontario Arts Council!
With funding support from Ontario Arts Council and a partnership with OK Stamp Press, we are excited to be embarking on our first publishing initiative! This book will feature work from the artists who participated in our 2023/4 Online Peer-to-Peer Residency and commissioned texts. Following OKSP’s strategy to invest profits into reader communities, rather than selling the publications we will offer books to the public in exchange for a suggested donation to a choice of arts organizations. Stay tuned for more details!
FPN Online Residency 2023
FPN launched our fourth Online Peer-to-Peer Residency in Sept 2023. This programming, geared to mid-career artists, will wrap up with an exhibition at Street Level Photoworks in Summer 2024. Stay tuned for further details!
Participating Artists: Tara Alisandratos, Kamal Badhey, Erika DeFreitas, Elizabeth Doak, Lydia Goldblatt, Ursula Handleigh, Sylwia Kowzlczyk, Jennifer Long, Isabel Martinez, Clare Samuel, Stacey Tyrell & Nilupa Yasmin.
Creating Community
Free Panel Discussion
Tues, Oct 3, 2023
7-8:30 pm
Location: OCAD University
100 McCaul St, rm MCA 284
This venue is wheelchair accessible
ALS interpretation will be provided.
Join the Feminist Photography Network in a panel discussion around community building with artists who are working in and leading initiatives in community arts. The panel will consist of Ilene Sova (Feminist Art Collective), Heather Morton (BIPOC Photo Mentorship Program), Dainesha Nugent-Palache (the plumb), and will be moderated by curator Liz Ikiriko.
This event is tied to our FPN Island programming and made possible by support from Canada Council for The Arts and our programming partner OCAD University.
Image: Jennifer Long, Artscape Gibraltar Point bus
FPN Island
FPN Island is a one-week immersion residency on Toronto Island’s Artscape Gibraltar Point led by the guiding principles of valuing intergenerational and intersectional identities. This experience will advance participants’ practices and develop skills through mentorship, network building, and knowledge sharing.
The 2023 FPN Island artists include:
Tobi Asmoucha, Barbara Brown, Michele Crockett, Dianne Davis, Hannah Doucet, Amanda Foulds, Bisma Jay, Bahar Kamali, Soka Lazara, Alexandra Majerus, Lesia Miga, Allison Morris, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Peggy Taylor Reid & Kelsey Whyte
This residency is made possible by support from Canada Council for The Arts and our programming partners BIPOC Photo Mentorship Program and OCAD University.
Image: Jennifer Long, Island View 2022
SATURDAY, MAY 6TH, 10am EST
FPN IS PLEASED TO BE PART OF: I am (with) HER Kind: Feminisms in Collective Practice
Moderated by Yang Li, Hosted by alpha nova and galerie futura.
community presenters include:
CAO Collective
COVEN BERLIN
fem_arc
Feminist Photography Network
Miroir Project
06.05.2023 // CET 16:00-17:30
New York 10:00-11:30 // Toronto 10:00-11:30 // Beijing 22:00-23:30
zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86193704770
Meeting-ID: 861 9370 4770
What does working collectively mean for feminist activists, artists, photographers, and architects when they come together in an alliance? Why is collaboration indispensable for comprehending and practicing feminist strategies in the midst of societal contexts in flux? Where are the boundaries between acting independently and collectively? What are the ongoing challenges faced by collectives in various creative areas? What roles do concepts such as care and inclusion play in their practices? Taking inspiration from Anne Sexton's poetic line, I have been her kind, this online round-table seeks to explore the intrinsic connections among women from creative fields, regardless of nationality, background, or profession, and regardless of the type of feminisms they identify with. The goal is to discuss the multifaceted understandings of being collective as a feminist strategy, and to encourage cross- disciplinary exchange and international inspiration among five collectives and the wider community.
Identity•Connection•Place
An online exhibition
Site Launches on March 8th 2023
www.fpnexhibit.com
Funded by Canada Council for the Arts, the web exhibition Identity • Connection • Place showcases work by sixteen artists from Canada and the UK who participated in the online peer-to-peer residencies we ran in 2017, 2020, and 2021. Identity, Connection and Place were themes weaving through these artists’ work and our experiences of the residency itself. For many of us, this support structure helped sustain our identity as artmakers alongside demanding roles like caregiver or breadwinner. Receiving creative perspectives and research material from different cultural locations was inspiring, and resulted in many rich friendships and collaborations, both national and transatlantic.
Identity • Connection • Place launches on 8th March 2023 (International Women’s Day), with the Identity section, and the Connection and Place sections will go live on consecutive weeks.
An on-site exhibition will run concurrently in the vitrines at A Space Gallery in Tkaronto (Toronto), and a selection of images will play on a slideshow outside Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow. The site includes seven commissioned texts and three live online events.
Identity • Connection • Place web design by Una Janićijević
Image: Hannah Laycock, From The Vessel series, 2018
Online Exhibit
The online exhibit features artwork by: Ida Arentoft, Clea Christakos-Gee, Raquel Diniz, Helen Jones, Hannah Laycock, Jennifer Long, Gina Lundy, Sarah Mangialardo, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Kafka, Clare Samuel, Kate Schneider, Arpita Shah, Farihah Aliyah Shah, Stacey Tyrell, & Nilupa Yasmin.
The site includes 7 specially commissioned texts by writers Aldeide Delgado, Lodoe Laura, Heather Rigg, Daniella Sanader, Morgan Sears-Williams, Geneviève Wallen, & Alana West.
Online Events
March 9th 18.30 UK / 13.30 EST: Artist talks by Hannah Laycock and Flannery O’Kafka, in partnership with Street Level Photoworks.
Register for your free ticket at eventbright
March 14th 15.00 UK / 11.00 EST: Artist talk by Stacey Tyrell in partnership with Napier University.
Join this event here
April 1st 17.00 UK / 12.00 EST: Panel discussion with Margaret Mitchell, Arpita Shah and Farihah Aliyah Shah moderated by Liz Ikiriko
Further details to come
A Space Gallery
March 8-May 5, 2023
A reception for the work at A Space will be held on Saturday 1st April 2-4pm
A Space Gallery Vitrines will feature artwork by: Clea Christakos-Gee, Flannery O'Kafka, Kate Schneider, & Arpita Shah
Poster image by Bahar Kamali
Juried by Robyn Cumming, Clare Samuel, & Liz Ikiriko
Publication text by Frances Dorenbaum
Gales Gallery, 105 Accolade West Building, 4700 Keele St, Toronto
Artists Include:
Mahsa Alikhani, Yang Chi, Wrynn Geswin, Bisma Jay, Azia Jonelle, Bahar Kamali, Christina Oyawale, Durga Rajah, Saba Sharifi, Kasia Sosnowski, Freida Wang, & Nava Messas Waxman.
Gender and The Lens III Installation View at Gales Gallery, York University. Artists from left to right: Bisma Jay, Christina Oyawale, Azia Jonelle
Upcoming Programming
We have some lovely news to share - FPN is a grant recipient of Canada Council's Digital Now initiative! This generous support will fund the creation of an online exhibition and associated programming launching in March 2023. More details to follow as co-directors Clare Samuel & Jennifer Long begin the process of turning the grant proposal into a reality!
Thank you Canada Council!
FPN is at Women, Photography, and Feminisms - WOPHA Congress.
The first-ever WOPHA Congress is co-presented by Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
This FREE event runs November 18-19 and can be attended virtually or in person. For the conference line up, please visit: www.wophacongress.org/2021-congress/
2021 Feminist Photography Online Residency
Our 2021 artist residents included Clea Christakos-Gee, Helen Jones, Jennifer Long, Flannery O'Kafka, Clare Samuel, Kate Schneider, Farihah Aliyah Shah, StaceyTyrell, & Nilupa Yasmin.
Image: Farihah Aliyah Shah @rihah Still from ‘And With These Hands’, 2020 single channel video installation (04:49)
2020 Feminist Photography Online Residency
In 2017, Feminist Photography Network piloted an online residency, whichbrought together twelve mid-career womenartists. The framework of the online residencyrevolved around monthly deadlines, feedback on works-in-progress,and peer motivation. Basedin Brooklyn, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlandsof Scotland, and Tkaronto/Toronto, the artists were selected because oftheir connections to photo-based practices, interest in community-building, andtheir shared challenges in creating art. In April 2020, nine of the artistsreinstated the residency in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 2020 artist residents included Ida Arentoft, Hannah Laycock, Jennifer Long, Gina Lundy, Margaret Mitchell, Clare Samuel, Kate Schneider, Arpita Shah, & StaceyTyrell.
Image: KateSchneider, Untitled 2020, work-in-progress
From Here & Elsewhere
“From Here & Elsewhere” (Spring/Summer 2020) was presented in collaboration with K + D, an art consulting firm that manages and builds art collections for private collectors and corporations across Canada @kplusd. The exhibition presented at Capital One's private offices features the work of four lens-based artists living in Toronto: April Hickox, Kate Schneider, Dianne Davis, and Virginia Mak. The selection of works each relate to the examination, recollection or documentation of a specific time and place, with themes of flora and fauna tying them together visually.
image: Dianne Davis, Common II, 2017 (Whirlpool Farm, 1891), 2017, C-print
April 2019: FPN is a proud community sponsor of the next Bechdel Tested event! It's a panel discussion on Women & Photography with screening of the amazing film 'Everlasting Moments', dir. Jan Troell, Sweden, 2008. Details and tickets here
Images left to right: Production still from 'Everlasting Moments', dir. Jan Troell, Sweden, 2008 / Alison Bechdel's cartoon strip from 1985 in 'Dykes To Watch Out For', that led to the term 'The Bechdel Test' / Criterion Collection DVD cover for 'Everlasting Moments', dir. Jan Troell, Sweden, 2008
Check out Online Artist Residency Participant Gina Lundy's Open College of Arts blog post about our residency and exhibit!
Exchanges: Dialogue, Hesitation & Creation
Artport Gallery, Harbourfront Centre
June 23 - September 14, 2018
Opening celebrations July 12, 6-10pm
Part of
BRAVE: The Festival of Risk and Failure
An exhibition by members of Feminist Photography Network’s Online Residency
Featuring artwork by: Ida Arentoft, Hannah Laycock, Jennifer Long, Gina Lundy, Sarah Mangialardo, Margaret Mitchell, Clare Samuel, Kate Schneider, Arpita Shah, and Stacey Tyrell
Left: Stacey Tyrell, Untitled, 2018
In the summer of 2017, Feminist Photography Network piloted an online residency, which brought together mid-career woman-identified artists from Canada and Scotland (via the Scotland-based WildFires: Women Photographers Network). The framework of the online residency revolved around monthly deadlines, feedback on work-in-progress, and peer motivation. Based in Brooklyn, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands of Scotland, and Toronto, the selected artists are aligned in their connection to photo-based practices, interest in community-building, and shared challenges in creating art. These artists have experienced common impediments, such as halts to their practice due to family commitments, precarious employment, and health issues. These and other variables, paired with the repeated underrepresentation of women in art, pose a challenge to sustaining an artistic practice. Exchanges: Dialogue, Hesitation & Creation explores the dynamic process of artistic production, including the failed shoots, self-doubt, and moments of clarity, while celebrating how the chaos of daily life can both inspire and hinder an artistic practice.
Special thanks to Exhibition Project Coordinator Alana West for her tireless support; the staff at Harbourfront Centre for their insight and trust; designer Sophie Paas-Lang for bringing the timeline to life; and Tek Yang and OCAD University’s Epson Imaging Lab for their printing support.
This exhibition is made possible by Creative Scotland, British Arts Council, Danish Arts Council, UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund, Ontario Arts Council, Government of Canada, City of Toronto and Canada Council for the Arts.
Artport Gallery, Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday & Sunday 12 noon to 6pm, Friday 12 noon to 8pm.
Closed Mondays, open holiday Mondays from 12 noon to 6pm
GENDER AND THE LENS II
March 1-10, 2018
Artists’ Reception March 8th, 7-9pm
Ryerson Artspace
1214 Queen Street W, Toronto, M6J 1J6
Open Wed-Fri 1-8pm, Sat & Sun 12-7pm
Wheelchair accessible through Gladstone Melody Bar
This is our second exhibition of student and recent alumni work in honour of International Women’s Day. This year the show includes artwork from Napier University as well as OCAD and Ryerson Universities. A sister exhibition of work by the same artists willis running concurrently at Napier’s gallery in Edinburgh, UK. Through this exhibition, different aspects and versions of what it means to be gendered female are explored. The relationships,tensions and contradictions between them reveal the slipperiness and intangibility of this supposed category, and the lived experiences it gives rise to.
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
AprilBeatson
Valerie Carew
Ailene deVries
Kat Dlugosz
Charisse Fung
Marina Mche
Julia Nemfield
LauraPrieto
Ananna Rafa
Adrian Raymer
FarihahAliyah Shah
ChristinaWebber
AndreaWestbrook
Kelsey Whyte
We are thankful to our jury of industry professionals for selecting the works and shaping an exhibition that presents many interpretations of, and questions about, gender; Rita Godlevskis, Heather Rigg, Eric Watters & Robyn Zolnai. We are also grateful to the team of professionals at Ryerson Artspace and to April Hickox and OCAD University’s Epson Photography Lab for printing support.
Above: Marina Mche, Beyond Norms II, 2017
FREE SCREENING of Katy Grannan's The Nine, 7th March at 7pm
TRIGGER WARNING: Approximately 1 hr into thefilm, a subject reveals witnessing a past event involving the sexual assault ofa minor. No visuals are shown
This screening at Ryerson's School of Image Arts, 122 Bond St (Room 307) is organized by Feminist Photography Network in conjunction with the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival.
Reserve your FREE tickets through Eventbright, space is limited! Please contact Clare Samuel if you have accessibility needs - c3samuel@ryerson.ca
THE NINE, renowned photographer Katy Grannan’s first feature film, is an intimate, at times disturbing, view into an America most would rather ignore.
There is nothing left of the American dream on the Nine -a solemn destination,a resting place for those who have relinquished the dream. Modesto is a city that lies in California's Central Valley, a region devastated during America'sGreat Depression. Modesto's notorious South Ninth Street -the Nine- is a noman's land where the rules of polite society do not apply. The people living there form a ravaged micro community whose Darwinian existence is a day to day hustle, and survival is by any means necessary. Kiki, however, is the rare bright light whose magnetic optimism is a means of self-preservation. Her childlike enthusiasm belies the stark reality that surrounds her. THE NINE,filmed in an elegiac style, honours the casualties of a broken system-people who might otherwise be forgotten. Raw, poetic, direct, and unnerving, the film is less a window into a foreign world than a distorted mirror reflecting our own shared existence.
Grannan’s photographs are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NewYork; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. She’s also a longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other important publications. Grannan received her BA from the University ofPennsylvania and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. There are five monographs of her work: Model American, The Westerns, Boulevard, The Nine, and The NinetyNine.
Feminist Photography Network Online Residency
From June 2017 to March 2018 – Feminist Photography Network is piloting an online residency for mid-career artists which brings together 12 lens-based artists to create work and participate in exhibitions in Scotland and Toronto.
Participating Artists:
Ida Arentoft
Melissa General
Hannah Laycock
Jennifer Long
Gina Lundy
Sarah Mangialardo
Margaret Mitchell
Clare Samuel
Kate Schneider
Arpita Shah
Iseult Timmermans
Stacey Tyrell
Top Left: Gina Lundy, Sweets Way Resists, London, 2015
Top Right: Sarah Mangialardo, Untitled, from the series Reconstructions 4, 2009
Lower Left: Margaret Mitchell, from the series In This Place
Gender & The Lens Exhibition
In celebration of International Women’s Day, 2017, The Feminist Photograhy Network launched the Gender & The Lens exhibition at OCAD University's Ada Slaight Student Gallery.
Participating Artists: Maddie Alexander, Yuling Chen, Clea Christakos-Gee, Ava Cochrane, Mara Gajic, Antonio Giacchetti, Raelene Giffin, Ashley Hiltz, Jesse King, Morgan Sears Williams, Michael Seleski, Farihah Shah, Alia Youssef
Curated by Jennifer Long and Clare Samuel
The exhibit showcased artworks by feminist-minded students and recent graduates from Ryerson and OCAD University whose artwork explores themes of gender through lens-based mediums. Within this installation was a slideshow entitled When The Light Shifts, by members of WildFires: Women Photographers Network in Scotland.
Right: Gender & The Lens installation at OCAD University’s Ada Slaight Student Gallery. Front monitor: WildFires: Women Photographers Network in Scotland, Back wall by Ava Cochrane (OCAD U) and Alia Youssef (Ryerson)
