Brady Cranfield

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In March, we welcome Brady Cranfield to speak on the work of Kathy Slade. 

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Brady Cranfield is a Vancouver-based sound and visual artist, musician, and writer. He holds a MA in Communications and a MFA from Simon Fraser University. He is the founder and co-organizer (in collaboration with the artist Kathy Slade) of the ongoing public art project The Music Appreciation Society, and he has frequently collaborated with artist Jamie Hilder. He is currently also a member of the improv/electronic/jazz trio Alfred Jarry.

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Brady Cranfield on Kathy Slade

Saturday Session

Allison Grimaldi Donahue

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We are pleased to announce our latest installment of CAG Reads, a book club where artists invite us to read alongside them. Each month an artist proposes text for our collective reading pleasure, culminating in a virtual hangout where the artist leads a wide-ranging discussion grounded in their chosen reading material. This month, CAG Reads will be hosted by Allison Grimaldi Donahue. Allison has chosen to read the poetry book *The Nick of Time* by Rosmarie Waldrop.

### Getting the texts
*The Nick of Time* is available for purchase in the CAG bookstore, [Massy Books](https://storestock.massybooks.com/item/hvTabYmi134dYXBOloHn-Q) and at the [Vancouver Public Library](https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C8276982).

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtf-mqqD4vGdwIl8PqwyHXVEGJdIvfvN_5). 

Questions? Send us a note at [cagreads@cagvancouver.org](mailto:cagreads@cagvancouver.org).

### Accessibility
This event will be live captioned (CART). For more information please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org).

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Biography
Allison Grimaldi Donahue (b. 1984, Middletown, CT) works in text and performance exploring modes in which language and text can move between individual and collective experience. She often employs participatory writing methods to build improvised communities of writers and translators, investigating the ways in which language is useful and useless, meaningful and a receptacle. She is author of *Body to Mineral* (Publication Studio Vancouver 2016) and On Endings (Delere Press 2019) and translator of *Blown Away* by vito m. bonito (Fomite 2021) and *Self-portrait* by Carla Lonzi (Divided 2021). She has given recent performances at Short Theatre, Almanac Turin, MACRO, MAMbo, Fondazione Giuliani and Kunsthalle Bern. In 2022 together with Caterina Moltenti at MAMbo Bologna she curated a retrospective of the work of concrete and sound poet Giulia Niccolai. She is currently working on a project at Sonnenstube Lugano around the work of Swiss lesbian feminist author Alice Ceresa. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and earned her PhD in 2021 from the European Graduate School under the supervision of Catherine Malabou. She lives in Bologna, Italy.

A portrait of Allison Grimaldi Donahue. She is wearing glasses, a light-blue denim button up and white pants.

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Allison Grimaldi Donahue presents Rosmarie Waldrop

CAG Reads

Debbie C.

Sena Cleave

Hannah Dubois

Kyla Dooley

Ysabel Gana

Danielle Bobier

A. Branch

Pierre Kaufman

This winter, CAG is pleased to host in its lobby a curatorial project by The Couch, entitled *Hometown II*. On view from February 9 to March 3, 2023, *Hometown II* features the work of A. Branch, Danielle Bobier, Kyla Dooley, Hannah Dubois, Ysabel Gana, and Pierre Kaufman.

Organized by Debbie C. and Sena Cleave, The Couch is a mobile art space that draws on the homemaking practices of carpenter ants to platform the work of emerging artists. Consisting of a couch and a coffee table, The Couch hosts gatherings that merge art and daily life, “infesting” galleries, living rooms, lobbies, outdoor public spaces and more. Art objects are exhibited on the table, and guests are invited to sit on the couch. 

For *Hometown II*, The Couch's organizers issued a call for art objects inspired by their research into artist Kim Beom’s book “Hometown,” which they encountered in CAG’s Abraham Rogatnick Library:

> First published in 1998 in Seoul, Korea, "Hometown" is about Ungyeri, a town that does not exist. Artist Kim Beom invites readers to learn about Ungyeri in order to claim it as their hometown, explaining that because the town does not exist, no one can contest these claims. The book acts as a guide for those who do not know their hometown or do not wish to reveal it though they have one. And “even if you do not have such a need,” Kim writes, “some of you may want to imagine a small, nameless mountain village or wish to have stories about places other than those that everybody recognizes by name or large, stifling cities.” He instructs readers on how to take on the qualities of a former Ungyeri resident, including details about the town’s location, customs, economics, and history.

> In the preface to the English edition of the book, Kim adds “it would indeed have been ideal if I could have created a hometown for each of you somewhere in your own country that has an environment similar to those of other people’s hometowns.” We take this as an invitation to continue Kim’s work of imagining space and place, intervening in existing infrastructures, and playing with narratives of belonging. We invite submissions by emerging artists that explore these ideas or otherwise respond to Kim’s "Hometown."

This project is presented as part of The Couch’s CAG Prize Residency, awarded yearly to an outstanding graduating BFA student (or students) in SFU’s Visual Art Program. The Couch (Debbie C. & Sena Cleave) were the recipients of the 2022 CAG Prize.

### Biography
The Couch is a mobile art space that draws on the homemaking practices of carpenter ants to platform the work of emerging artists. Carpenter ants chew faults into human infrastructures to build their own homes, but an infestation alone cannot demolish a building. Instead, the ants uncover the foundations by disturbing surface elements like window sills or baseboards. When The Couch is installed within a gallery, it carves out space for artists that the institution did not invite, thus infesting the gallery. 

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Five ceramic works that look like apple cores displayed on a bright wooden surface.

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The Couch: Hometown II

CAG Prize Residency

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Join CAG’s Assistant Curator Julia Lamare for a walkthrough of the current exhibitions.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

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Curatorial Tour with Julia Lamare

CANCELLED

Lorna Brown

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In February, we welcome Lorna Brown to speak on the work of Kathy Slade. 

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based visual artist, curator, writer and editor. Brown is a founding member of Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, and is an ongoing member of the Other Sights Producer team. She was the Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery from 1999 to 2004, an artist-run centre focusing on the relationship between visual art and writing. Between 2015 and 2022, she was Acting Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, curating exhibition series such as *Beginning With the Seventies* that explored the relationship between art, archives and activism. Brown has exhibited her work internationally since 1984, and has taught at Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she received an honorary doctorate of letters in 2015. Awards include the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts Award (1996) and the Canada Council Paris Studio Award (2000). Her work is in the collections of the Belkin, SFU Galleries, the National Gallery of Canada, the BC Arts Council, the Surrey Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank.

A portrait of Lorna Brown. An orange shawl is draped across her shoulders.

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Lorna Brown on Kathy Slade

Marianne Nicolson

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We are pleased to announce our latest installment of CAG Reads, a book club where artists invite us to read alongside them. Each month an artist proposes text for our collective reading pleasure, culminating in a virtual hangout where the artist leads a wide-ranging discussion grounded in their chosen reading material. This month, CAG Reads will be hosted by Marianne Nicolson. Marianne has chosen to read *Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call* (2015) by Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson and Arthur Manuel.

### Getting the texts
*Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call* is available to order from [Massy Books](https://storestock.massybooks.com/item/mynpmgPBvvL1VKVdC0q90g) and can also be found at the [Vancouver Public Library](https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Unsettling%20Canada%3A%20A%20National%20Wake-Up%20Call&searchType=smart).

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvc-yupzwiE9y_6-0WFAD7mCBHArk5_K-5). 

Questions? Send us a note at cagreads@cagvancouver.org.

### Accessibility
This event will be live captioned (CART). For more information please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org).

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Biography
Marianne Nicolson is an artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. The Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw Nations are part of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwak’wala speaking peoples) of the Pacific Northwest Coast. She is trained in both traditional Kwakwaka’wakw forms and culture and contemporary gallery and museum-based practice. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1996), a Master of Fine Arts (2000) from the University of Victoria, as well as a Master of Arts (2005) in Linguistics and Anthropology and a PhD (2013) in Linguistics and Anthropology with a focus on space as expressed in the Kwak’wala language. Nicolson works as a Kwakwaka’wakw cultural researcher and historian, as well as an advocate for Indigenous land rights. Her practice is multi-disciplinary encompassing photography, painting, carving, video, installation, monumental public art, writing and speaking. All her work is political in nature and seeks to uphold Kwakwaka’wakw traditional philosophy and worldview through contemporary mediums and technology. Exhibitions include the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; The Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Museum of the American Indian in New York, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Ontario, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands and many others. Major monumental public artworks are situated in Vancouver International Airport, the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France.

A portrait of Marianne Nicolson. She is smiling in front of a colourful backdrop.

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Marianne Nicolson presents Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson and Arthur Manuel

Vitória Monteiro

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. In February, we invite you to join us for an art-making workshop led by artist and CAG’s Acting Curator of Learning and Engagement, Vitória Monteiro.

Inspired by CAG’s upcoming exhibition *Kathy Slade: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*, Vitória will guide participants in an art-making activity that will explore the technique of frottage; the process of transferring surface textures by rubbing over them with various art mediums. Carried out through a creative exploration of textures, the workshop will engage in the various ways we all think about, take part in, and make use of practices of ‘collecting’.

Vitória invites participants to bring textured items to the workshop. 

Many spaces have been reserved for neurodivergent participants.
 
### Accessibility
A portion of the workshop will take place outside and requires participants to make their way around city sidewalks and parks. Please contact us at [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) if you have any accessibility needs.

A note from the artist: This is a neurodivergent-friendly space! Please feel welcome to bring stim toys and headphones or anything else you use to regulate. I will do my best to make the space cozy and comfortable by minimizing overhead lighting, reducing noise and providing alternative seating options for those of us who like to switch it up and sit on the floor!

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-sensations-of-deja-vu-with-vitoria-monteiro-tickets-506758306737).

### Biography
Vitória Monteiro is a Brazilian-Canadian artist who explores the intricacies of language abstraction and the reprocessing of information. Monteiro works in paper-making, sculpture and performance to navigate various sites that knowledge inhabits. Their work embodies themes of dislocation, translation, indexicality, and citation, and is rooted in reflections of being neurodivergent. Their recent and upcoming exhibitions include: *To Fold; To Fault*, CityScape Community ArtSpace (2023); *I have forgotten my umbrella*, Mónica Reyes Gallery (2022); *Just Out of Reach*, The Couch Space as part of Unit/Pitt’s Wrong Wave Festival (2022) and *Digital Interventions Part 2: Mediating Vessels*, Massy Art Gallery (2022).


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Sensations of Déjà Vu with Vitória Monteiro

Open Studio

Lisa Robertson

Kathy Slade

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Join us for a talk in the gallery between Kathy Slade and Lisa Robertson on the occasion of Slade's exhibition *As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*.

### RSVP
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### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Biography
Kathy Slade (b. 1966, Montreal) is an artist, writer, curator, editor, and publisher. She works across mediums and has produced textile works, prints, sculpture, film, video, performance, music projects, and publications. Slade’s solo exhibitions include *Wherever You Go*, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver (2020); *This is a Chord. This is Another.*, Surrey Art Gallery (2018); and *Blue Monday*, 4COSE, London (2017). Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Fluc, Vienna; and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. In 2009, Slade was awarded the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts. She currently teaches at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Lisa Robertson (b. 1961, Toronto) is a Canadian poet and essayist. She was a longtime resident of Vancouver, where in the early ’90s she began writing, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. She has continued these activities for 30 years, publishing books, leaflets and posters, translating poetry and linguistics from French, lecturing and teaching internationally, and continuing her ongoing study into the political constitution of lyric voice. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University, Princeton, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and American University of Paris, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada, the US and Europe. Her recent books include the novel *The Baudelaire Fractal* and the poetry collection *Boat*, both from Coach House Books, as well as *Anemones*, a translation and study of Simone Weil published by If I Can’t Dance, in Amsterdam. She lives in France.


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Kathy Slade and Lisa Robertson

In Conversation

Please join us to celebrate CAG's winter 2023 exhibition, *Kathy Slade: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop*.

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

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Winter 2023

Opening Reception

Rain Cabana-Boucher

Chipo Chipaziwa

Phoebe Bei

Luca Cara Seccafien

Ruby Smith Díaz

CAG and Ground Floor are delighted to announce the recipients of this year's WEDGE residencies. These residencies will provide early-emerging artists and cultural practitioners with the opportunity to work directly with a mentor to explore a research question related to the past, present and or future of “Vancouver” culminating in a public-facing audio output in 2023.

### Phoebe Bei
Mentored by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber) 

Phoebe Bei is an interdisciplinary artist working largely in image-based processes and installation. Her work navigates fictional and existing embodiments of land, and how land is occupied and disseminated in the production of home, culture and identity. Bei was British Columbia’s recipient of the BMO 1st Art! Prize in 2018 and holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University. She has exhibited at the Audain Gallery, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, James Black Gallery, and Or Gallery.

### Rain Cabana-Boucher
Mentored by Laiwan

Rain Cabana-Boucher is a Michif/British settler interdisciplinary artist raised in Treaty 6 territory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her family has historic ties to the Michif communities of St. François Xavier and St. Boniface, Manitoba, and St. Louis, Saskatchewan. She currently lives and works on the stolen land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ and xwməθkwəy̓əm Nations. Cabana-Boucher explores the autobiographical in relation to place and politics, seeking to navigate the complexities of identity within environments that are rapidly changing under systematic pressures. She is a recent recipient of the Takao Tanabe Prize for emerging British Columbia Painters and the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant.

### Chipo Chipaziwa
Mentored by Krystal Paraboo

Chipo Chipaziwa is a visual artist who predominantly works in the medium of performance art. 
 
Chipaziwa’s practice concerns itself with the fluidity of identity, the performativity of the Black body and Chipaziwa’s own investigation of disrupting the gaze of the other. 
 
Chipaziwa has previously worked with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the City of Vancouver and Live Biennale. 
 
Chipaziwa currently resides on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

### Ruby Smith Díaz
Mentored by Wayde Compton 

Ruby Smith Díaz is an Afrolatina educator, multi-disciplinary artist and body positive personal trainer. She was born in amiskwaciy, and graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Education with distinction. Her work as a filmmaker has been featured at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax and at the Vancouver Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in Nora Samaran’s book *Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture* and Harsha Walia’s *Undoing Border Imperialism*. Currently, Ruby spends most of her time facilitating her arts-based Black Histories + Futures workshops in high schools and coaching people of all backgrounds to be their strongest selves.

### Luca Cara Seccafien
Mentored by Afuwa 

Luca Cara Seccafien is a comic artist, printmaker, facilitator, and cultural worker on the stolen ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ people. Their semi-autobiographical artwork reflects upon the experience of being disabled by trauma while surviving through relational queerness.

Luca has worked alongside veteran artists and activists at 221A, Gallery Gachet, Powell Street Festival, Queer Arts Festival, Heart of the City Festival, and beyond. They’ve spent twelve years working in fundraising, administration, operational, managerial, and production capacities in the arts. Luca co-founded WePress Community Arts Space, where they facilitated printmaking education for communities coping with systemic oppression.

A collage featuring, amongst other details, a bird’s-eye view of a mottled orange surface, a wedge of light blue fun fur and a bread tag. In blue iridescent text, the word “WEDGE” appears across the image.

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A black and white portrait of Phoebe Bei. It is closely cropped to frame her face. She is looking directly into the camera.

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A portrait of Rain Cabana-Boucher. She is seated in front of a black and white painting hung on a white brick wall, on which two smaller images hang.

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A portrait of Chipo Chipaziwa. The image is a screenshot of an open Photobooth window. The bottom half of her face and torso are within frame.

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A portrait of Ruby Smith Díaz. Half of her face is within the frame. A lens flare stretches across the photo.

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A portrait of Luca Cara Seccafien. They are wearing a blue button up shirt and a blazer. A view of the city is behind them.