Image courtesy of Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa.
Accessibility as Creative Practice
SFU Galleries is excited to announce that Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa will be joining us as our Accessibility as Creative Practice Intern throughout the spring and summer of 2023.
Keimi is an immigrant settler whose art practice focuses on exploring racialized identity, multi-sensorial experiences of art, and artistic labour. Their work focuses on textile materials like weaving, tufting, and sewing, but includes printmaking and writing, and more. Keimi is interested in the perceptions of ethnicity and gender that exist in art-making, and how “accessibility” and “art” relate.
Their time with us will centre around three intentional-access workshops, where participants will come together in a supportive art-making environment, to socialize and be creative in a way that meets specific access needs.
Events
Accessibility as Creative Practice: Workshop for Immunocompromised Makers
SAT, FEB 25 / 2 – 5PM
Audain Gallery
Accessibility as Creative Practice: Workshop for Sensory-Sensitive Makers
SAT, APR 15 / 2 – 5PM
Audain Gallery
Accessibility as Creative Practice: Storytelling Through Art Engagement Tools
Sat, JUN 17 / 2 – 5PM
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Room 225
*We will require that participants wear masks, which will be available at the gallery as well. We will not be checking vaccination status, but we ask that you come with your COVID-19 immunization and/or take a rapid test at home within 24 hrs of the workshop to ensure the safety of our group. Even if it’s not COVID, please stay home if you’re feeling unwell.
This program has been made possible by the generous support from the British Columbia Arts Council’s Early Career Development Grant.
