Post-Mortem Survey for Making Art Work 2020-21
Thank you for participating in the Making Art Work professional development workshop series co-presented by Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Union Gallery, and Agnes Etherington Art Centre. We are looking for feedback from participants of the program to inform future professional development programs. The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be anonymous. Thank you for your time!
TWOFOLD RESIDENCY
FOR EMERGING BIPOC ARTISTS
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Shanique Peart, Alicia Udvari, Shamara Peart, and Sumera Khan
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Co-Directed by Berlin Reed and Jill Glatt
Co-Presented by Union Gallery and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
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July 2–27, 2024: Union Gallery
August: Modern Fuel
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Led by Co-Directors, Jill Glatt (Artist/Instructor) and Berlin Reed (Curator/Artist), the Twofold Residency presents an opportunity for local BIPOC artists to dive into their practice in community with others—sparking relationships, challenging discussions, and new collaborations. The Twofold 2024 Artists in Residence are Shanique Peart, Alicia Udvari, Shamara Peart, and Sumera Khan.
Artists will work out of Union Gallery in July and Modern Fuel in August, with access to designated work spaces, professional development and mentorship, communal events, and the platform to share their practices through studio visits.
Modern Fuel and Union Gallery are grateful to the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area for their generous support of the Twofold Residency, contributing to a robust and diverse artistic community in Katarokwi-Kingston.
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Meet the Artists-in-Residence
Sumera Khan
Sumera Khan is a professional painter, content creator, art instructor and an urban sketcher from Kingston. She paints a variety of subjects including portraiture, plein air and still life. Through alla prima technique and impressionist style of brushwork, she likes painting stories captured in time. Her still life paintings are moments taken from real life that are personifications of deeply felt emotions and/or memories. Whether it's the quiet impressionistic ambience of a portrait, memories captured in still life or bustling moments of an urban space, she invites viewers to pause, reflect and find splendour in all her works. Sumera Khan remains committed to illuminating the beauty and complexity of the world through her art.
Khan is a member and founder of a growing community on Facebook called Urban Sketchers Hub where the artists connect in local sketch meetups and/or share their love for urban sketching online.
Alicia Udvari
Alicia Udvari is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator currently based in Katarokwi-Kingston. Working in a variety of mediums, including animation, sculpture, and illustration, Alicia uses mixed materials and found objects to bring their pieces to life, rooted in the desire to make art accessible and sustainable. Surrounding themes of childhood, nature, and the human experience, their art asks us to examine how we as people connect to the world around us, and where can find beauty and art within that.
Alicia received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen's University (2023) and is currently working as a teaching artist at Kingston School of Art, working towards their pursuit to make art accessible to the community.
Meet the Co-Directors
Berlin Reed
Berlin Reed is an independent curator/artist/chef based outside of Tiohtià:Ke//Montréal. As a 2023 Fellow of both Toronto-based Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism and NY-based Art for Artists, Berlin works to create spaces and opportunities for interactions that disregard conventional lines between curator and artist. Seeking to clear space for a more challenging, engaging, and immersive audience experience, Berlin’s current focus, “On Rupture”, is a residency-based curatorial research project consisting of experimental practice, collective projects, and exhibition development in the interest of interrogating the role of independent curators in dismantling oppressive norms within art institutions.
Jill Glatt
Jill Glatt is a Katarokwi//Kingston-based textile artist, printmaker, and French Immersion art teacher. She has developed and delivered programming for the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, Kingston Arts Council, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Union Gallery, Kingston School of Art, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Jill is also the Volunteer Coordinator and Board President for the Skeleton Park Arts Festival. Her artistic practice is based around and informed by ecology, community, and sustainability.
ABOUT UNION GALLERY
Union Gallery is a space for creative risk-taking and curiosity that supports and promotes the arts communities of Katarokwi/Kingston by nurturing reciprocal relationships between students, artists, and arts workers at all stages of their careers. It is a community-driven hub for the production and exhibition of contemporary art that fosters critical engagement, facilitates interdisciplinary experimentation, and creates opportunities for the next generation of cultural producers.​
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ABOUT MODERN FUEL ARTIST-RUN CENTRE
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is a non-profit organization facilitating the presentation, interpretation, and production of contemporary visual, time-based, and interdisciplinary arts. Modern Fuel aims to meet the professional development needs of emerging and mid-career local, national, and international artists, from diverse cultural communities, through exhibition, discussion, and mentorship opportunities. Modern Fuel supports innovation and experimentation and is committed to the education of interested publics and the diversification of its audiences. As an advocate for contemporary art, as well as for artists' rights, we pay professional fees to artists in accordance with the CARFAC fee schedule. Modern Fuel has been operating in Katarokwi/Kingston for over forty years, supporting artists and working across communities, on the ancestral homelands and territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples. We at Modern Fuel strive for respectful relationships through all of the programming and exhibitions that we support, as we work towards collective healing and honour this land together.
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Both Union Gallery and Modern Fuel are situated within the territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat, which are also home to many members of the Métis nation.
Shamara Peart
Shamara Peart is a scholar, editor, and poet living in Kingston, ON. A 2023 Queen's graduate with an MA in English Literature, she is Jamaican-Canadian and uses she/they pronouns. They’ve published poems in Arc Poetry and with Poet’s Choice, wrote commissioned work for Trent University's Freedom Lounge, presented at ACCUTE Congress 2023 (and was invited to return to the 2024 conference). They are currently working on forthcoming publications for Acta Victoriana, Multilingual Matters, and Edinburgh University Press. When not writing, she can be found caring for her houseplants or doing pottery.
Shanique Peart
Shanique Peart is a Kingston based multi-disciplinary artist with a passion for creation, dance and photography. Shanique began her dance journey as a self-trained dancer exploring movement through Hip-hop and freestyle dance. Over the years she has had the opportunity to train in a variety of settings that has allowed her to develop her skills in multiple dance styles. Including Hip-Hop, Dancehall, Afro fusion, Modern and Urban Contemporary.
This diverse background has influenced her journey as a multi-disciplinary artist. Not only exploring and creating through movement but intertwining dance and performance through film and photography.
Outside of dance and photography, Shanique is moving into more creation-based and collaboration projects. Both in and outside of Kingston, ON. As well as the theatre, education and administrative space within the dance and arts community.