COME AND JOIN US TO CELEBRATE THE PUBLICATION OF

BUILT TO RUIN: BETWEEN INVISIBILITY AND SUBURBIA (Alejandro Cartagena, with creative writing by Tim Conley and Nicholas Hauck) and THE DARK REDACTED (Donna Szőke and Gary Barwin)

Guest speaker Renée van der Avoird is the Assistant Curator of Canadian Art in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Indigenous + Canadian Department. Her area of specialty is modern and contemporary Canadian women artists. Prior to joining the AGO in 2018, she held positions as Associate Curator/Registrar at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; Assistant Director of Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; and Curatorial Mentor at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She holds an Honours Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Fine Arts and French Language & Literature from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, and a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto.

This event is presented by the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture for the Walker Cultural Leader Series.The Walker Cultural Leader series brings leading artists, performers, practitioners and academics to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University. Engaging, lively and erudite, these sessions celebrate professional achievement, artistic endeavour and the indelible role of culture in our society. This education program is generously supported by Marilyn I. Walker.