This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Queer Crafty Hang- Printmaking Protest Posters!
In-person
LGBTQIA2S Visual arts Printmaking Nature & outdoors DesignDate and time
Location
Exhibition Park (Activation Station (Big Blue Box))
81 London Road West
Guelph, ON
Directions: There is free street parking in the surrounding neighbourhood. The event will take place on a grassy area, so it may not be suitable for those using a mobility device. We will meet at the big blue shipping container!.
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
Masks available to participants.
About
Queer Crafty Hang is an ad-hoc event series at Exhibition Park in Guelph, in collaboration between artist Jude Akrey, and local organizations Art Not Shame and Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition.
This series is an open invitation to queer creatives and community members to gather at the park on a bi-weekly basis and participate in place-building and community care by making art together!
For this special iteration of Queer Crafty Hang, Jude Akrey will lead participants through creating their own protest posters using linocut printmaking methods. In queer history and culture, printmaking is an active form of resistance, community-building, and knowledge sharing. Participants will explore what it means to build resources throughout our local communities through shared artmaking experiences.
This workshop is free, and materials will be provided. Donations are welcome to help cover the cost of materials. Participants are encouraged to bring a blanket, lawn chair, sketchbook, and water bottle.
Links
- Jude Akrey judeakrey.com
- Art Not Shame artnotshame.org
- Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition guelphneighbourhoods.org
Organizer
Jude Akrey
Jude Akrey (they/them) is a white, queer, Autistic artist occupying Between the Lakes Treaty Territory No.3, otherwise known as Guelph, ON. Their work is dedicated to the ongoing exploration and perpetual re-definition of trans and Autistic experiences: ways of being in the world that are inherently transitory and ambiguous. Working primarily in painting, printmaking, and community-engaged methods, they create spaces of relational inquiry that resist normative timelines and forms. Jude’s work is rooted in trans and Autistic cosmologies, shaped by alternative methods of communication, care, and perception. They are committed to investigating the power of empowered communities through shared learning and community-engaged artmaking. Jude graduated from the University of Guelph with a BA(Honours) in Studio Art. Since graduating, they were selected as the 10th Annual Artist-In-Residence for the City of Guelph and their project From One Queer to Another was awarded the Warren Garrett Inclusive Programming Award through the Ontario Culture Days Spotlight Recognition Program.