Disability Culture Showcases

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In these showcases, Listen to Dis' will be highlight disability culture from and by Saskatchewan artists with two presentations. Listen to Dis' would like to thank Sask. Culture for their support in organizing this disability hub.

Please email Listen to Dis' at [email protected] with any access concerns you may have. Auto transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Interpretation provided by Saskatchewan Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services with support from Sask. Lotteries.

Artist Bios:

[Oct. 14]

Colin Farnan is a multidisciplinary professional artist who has called Saskatoon Saskatchewan home for the last 30 years. Colin’s specialization is in painting, illustration, and large scale mural projects. Colin has been working mainly as a commission based artist with many corporate contracts and private sales of original art work. Some notable clients are The City of Saskatoon, Mosaic Potash Mines, and Lucky Bastard Distillery. Colin has a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan. Colin’s current work investigates the relationship between nature and culture through the tradition of landscape painting. Specifically working through the tradition of observational painting, which for him involves an examination of how painting can articulate specific moments, ideas and constructions of time and place.

[Oct. 20]

Max Ferguson: Max (formerly Sarah) Ferguson has been a practicing artist since 1996 and received his BFA from the University of Regina in 2001. He graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Visual Art and Women’s and Gender Studies) in 2017 and is currently pursuing his PhD in Art and Women’s and Gender Studies at York University. His artistic explorations involve disability studies, gender, neurodivergent and trans-queer sexualities, activism, the body, surrealism, and psychoanalysis. Max has worked with a variety of media, ranging from computer-based works and readymades, to paintstick, graphite, and digital collage. Currently, his work revolves around hybridized notions of photography, sculpture, sound, installation and performance, involving the psyche, the body, activism, queer theory, and mental health. He is also a published poet and writer, holds a degree in journalism, and has worked as a political, legal, military and arts writer in four different provinces over the past decade.

Content warning for nudity for the second session

Links

• Zoom link for session #1 us02web.zoom.us
• Zoom link for session #2 us02web.zoom.us

Organizer

Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization Inc.

Listen to Dis’ Community Arts Organization Inc. is Saskatchewan’s only disability-led disability arts organization. Becoming a registered non-profit in 2014, a registered Canadian charity in 2019, and with programming as far back as 2006, LTD’s provides a number of streams of programming in order to support disabled artists and disability art in the province, including workshops, weekly community programming, a visiting artists series, a company of touring emerging professional artists, as well as holding disability audits and educational opportunities.