July 30, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Sunday July 30, 2023
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Presented in partnership with Mending the Museum
Ages 15 – 18
What are the connections between the past, present, and future of objects? What or who is missing or unavailable in museums? Where do we go from here?
Inspired by Chiedza Pasipanodya’s multidimensional engagement with a Kenyan Luo Pipehead living in the Gardiner Museum’s collection, this workshop invites youth of African descent to reflect upon and breathe life into a selection of works in the Museum using clay. Using an African-centred approach and rooted in a relational Ubuntu philosophy, this workshop considers the role of local and diasporic contexts, offering a breath of fresh air to interpreting and making clay objects.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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General : Free Registration
About the Instructor
Chiedza Pasipanodya
Chiedza Pasipanodya (chee-ed-za pasi-pano-jga) is an artist, curator, and writer who lives and works in Toronto, Canada and Harare, Zimbabwe. Their research-based practice is informed by traditional southern African pottery, ontologies and social practice. Chiedza is curious about remembering and belonging. In their multidisciplinary practice, they are committed to elevating narratives which might otherwise be forgotten and misremembered, especially the cultural productions of people of African descent. Chiedza has exhibited at Nia Centre for the Arts, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Whippersnapper Gallery. Chiedza was a Toronto Biennial of Art Curatorial Fellow (2022) and has curated exhibitions with The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Aspace Gallery, BAND Gallery, and Nuit Blanche.
About Mending the Museum
Mending the Museum is a community research project organized by Mending the Museum (duo of the same name), Karina Román Justo and Camila Salcedo, that pairs ten artists with “fragments” of textiles and ceramics from the Textile Museum of Canada and the Gardiner Museum’s collections. The artists that engaged with the Gardiner’s collection are: Kendra Yee, Habiba El Sayed, Chiedza Pasipanodya, and Juan Pablo Hernandez Gutierrez. The project was divided into two phases: the first, working with the invited artists on research of the collection objects and development of digital artworks, and the second, guiding artists in the delivery of workshops targeting youth and children on their creative processes and histories of making.
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