A crocheted protest sign made up of patcheds of various designs and colours. The middle of the fabric has text that reads, “WE WON’T KEEP DOWN”.

Walk and Talk: Curatorial Tour of Creative Dissent and Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future

Join AGG Director Shauna McCabe and artist/educator Pearl Van Geest for a talk and tour of the exhibitions Creative Dissent and Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future.

Mar 22.2023

Time

6:30pm

Location 358 Gordon St Guelph, ON N1G 1Y1

Price Free

Join us Wednesday, March 22, at 6:30 pm, as AGG Director Shauna McCabe and artist/educator Pearl Van Geest offer a talk and tour of the exhibitions Creative Dissent and Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future. Emerging from Mary Kelly’s long engagement with activist movements, To Witness the Future brings together the artist’s recent work in forms including video, light box photographs, and her signature lint “paintings.” Creative Dissent expands on this exploration of the visual culture of protest, focusing on a diversity of textile-based work created in and through mobilization, participation, and action.

Image detail: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, CAN’T/WON’T (detail), 2012, acrylic yarn. Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid

Partners and Sponsors

Creative Dissent is curated by Shauna McCabe and Pearl Van Geest and organized by the Art Gallery of Guelph with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council.

Mary Kelly: To Witness The Future is organized by the Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, DC, and is curated by Al Miner. The exhibition is presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph with the generous assistance of the Office of the former University Librarian, Rebecca Graham, University of Guelph, as well as the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council.