Kathleen Vaughan
You Are Here | Vous êtes ici
Exhibition
March 6 to 28
Gallery Tour
Thurs. March 5
5 to 6 pm
Vernissage and publication launch
Thurs. March 5
6 to 8 pm
Workshop (registration required)
Sat. March 14
1 to 4 pm
Audio walk launch
Thurs. March 26
5 to 6 pm
Art Hive
Sat. March 28
10 am to 4 pm
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You Are Here|Vous Êtes Ici is a solo exhibition and series of related events by Canadian artist Kathleen Vaughan, featuring tactile, colourful textile maps created over the past 15 years. The exhibition uses visual art and storytelling to elaborate connections between place and belonging, with an environmental slant. Emphasized are works about parks and greenspaces in Montreal, an urban forest in Toronto and environments in Iceland and Norway. Maps are a means to evoke place without using pictorial traditions. Maps also help bring to life questions of power, partiality and exclusions that are embedded in all forms of representation. At the same time, maps are cross-cultural, familiar and easily understood, and so an accessible format for diverse audiences.
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Kathleen Vaughan (MFA, PhD) is an artist, educator and academic with a trans-disciplinary orientation to questions of place and belonging. In both studio and community projects, she balances her love for post-industrial sites, urban forests and green spaces with critical engagement, and often uses walking and mapping as method and form. Her work includes digital and hand embroidery, textile piecing, photography, painting, drawing, audio, video and text, and increasingly integrates sustainably-produced and biodegradable materials. She is the Concordia University Research Chair in Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies and Associate Professor of Art Education. More about her work can be found at akaredhanded.com and re-imagine.ca.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 12 pm to 6 pm; Saturday 12 pm to 5 pm
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