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The Art of Resistance Gallery Closeout
April 29, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Join FIFSW Art Action in witnessing the art of students on the margins!
An in-person gathering will be held at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the 3rd floor Art Wall on Friday, April 29th. Drop in anytime between 9am – 5pm to view the gallery and explore how to mobilize power to amplify students’ voices and advocacy efforts. All students, alumni, faculty, staff and members of the public are invited.
*Please note that U of T requires all individuals attending University premises to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and must complete a self-screening before coming to campus. Please click here for more details.
About FIFSW Art Action
Founded in Fall 2021 by Amada Bastyr, Liz Beeforth, Chasity Hewitt-Brown, Mackenzie Mountford, Natalia Munive, and Ruka Watanabe, FIFSW Art Action is a collective of students on the margins who seek to:
- Offer arts-based spaces for FIFSW students and alumni on the margins to convene, create, and connect for collective care and action
- Document and sustain the creative resistance of FIFSW students and alumni on the margins by building collective memory that can support coalitional advocacy
- Advance efforts to expand work at the intersection of art and social work in pursuit of social justice.
Contact: fifswartaction@gmail.com
The FIFSW Art Action started as a project as part of the course Theoretical Approaches to Defining Social Injustice & Engaging in Social Change (SWK4306) taught by Associate Professor Rupaleem Bhuyan. The students continued working together in the Winter semester in the course Globalization and Trans-nationalization: Intersections of Policy and Community Practice Locally and Globally (SWK4304), also taught by Prof. Bhuyan. The collective kept the initiative alive through the creation of the policy-focused event Blackout Policy Poetry and by working towards a gallery launch.