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Category: All Years

Birdie

Person standing barefoot in a black outfit, draped with a long, multi-limbed soft sculpture made of patterned fabric and bright appliqué flowers, extending from shoulders and arms against a white backdrop

Artist Biography: Birdie (FKA Valentin Brown) is a practitioner of longing. Birdie searches for care and intimacy, practicing longing through notions of accessibility. Like artists and thinkers before her, she envisions disability and difference as transformative cultures that connect all our struggles, rather than things that are isolated only in the body. As an emerging multidisciplinary […]

Steacy Easton

Portrait of Steacy Easton with glasses and a beard posing with arms crossed against a warm-toned textured background

Artist Biography: Steacy Easton (they/them) is a writer, print maker, photographer, and performer artist, originally from Edmonton, who has lived in Hamilton for more than eight years. They are the author of three books: one on Tammy Wynette, one on Dolly Parton, and a memoir. They have shown work in Toronto, New York, Montreal, Halifax and […]