Lunch & Learn | Social Media for Artists & Designers

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

12:00 –2:00 PM

Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, Level 3, 115 McCaul St.

Join the CEAD for a casual lunch and learn session with artists Kendra Yee, Mohammad Rezaei, and Jason Zante as they discuss how artists and designers can leverage their social media presence to make connections, cultivate an audience and generate opportunities for their work.

Kendra Yee | @kendrayee

Kendra Yee's practice consists of mixed-media paintings, ceramic sculptures and narrative based installations. The assembled landscapes throughout her work serve as artifacts to episodic memories, acting as archives to family histories that have survived through storytelling.

Mohammad Rezaei | @mohammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmad

Mohammad Rezaei is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, designer, meme maker, web developer, community organizer and arts administrator currently residing in Toronto. His artistic practice is informed by his experiences coordinating and collaborating to make exhibitions happen. Rezaei revels in experimental approaches to making, digital and IRL display strategies brought together with intentions of community building. Rezaei’s interests have led him contribute to the establishment of exhibition spaces and art festivals, extensive involvement with artist-run centers and galleries across Canada while maintaining an independent arts and curatorial practice. His projects have been funded through successful grants from Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. From 2013-2016, he was the Director of Programming at Whippersnapper Gallery in Toronto. Rezaei has curated and exhibited works at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary, Contemporary Calgary, Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, 7a*11d Performance Art Festival, Xpace Cultural Centre and The New Gallery. He has published art criticism for the Calgary Biannual, Emmedia Production House and Gallery, and Fuse Magazine. He currently works at Toronto Arts Council.

Jason Zante | @jasonizer_art

I am a graphic design major in my final thesis year at OCAD University. The type of design work I create varies depending on the project I am working on. I specialize in three main areas which are in illustration, photography, and graphic design. Most often, the work I produce merges the three disciplines to produce a nexus of multimedia art and design.