Drinkin' About Museums Sept 24: Unusual Suspects: Art’s Expanded Relevance with Danica Evering

Join us for the FIRST EVER HME Drinkin' About Museums evening!

Location: Merit Brewing, 107 James Street North, Hamilton

Time: 6:30-8:30

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Topic and Speaker: Unusual Suspects: Art’s Expanded Relevance, Danica Evering

Unusual Suspects: Art’s Expanded Relevance

Using her work as the Education Officer at Humber Galleries as a starting point, Danica will talk through some of her engagement strategies to build learning relationships with unusual suspects. Reaching out beyond the art programs at the college, the art community, and the “general public,” the education program brought in recent immigrant students, outdoor elementary school groups, new teachers, after-school programs and more. The gallery developed responsive programming for students from community and justice services; fashion; journalism; the Black Academic Success and Engagement; hospitality, recreation, and tourism; the Aboriginal Resource Centre, international public relations, and more. Danica will discuss experimenting with language, intentional outreach, finding connections in exhibitions, advance conversations with professors, and relationship-building with campus resource centres in order to build this outreach and education program, as well as the reciprocal connections it supported.

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Danica Evering was born in Cobourg and lives in Hamilton. Through writing, organizing, and sound composition, she reaches out intentionally, negotiates power structures, and suggests possibilities. Danica's experience with responsive education and experimental projects fosters unexpected connections between people and ideas. Her SSHRC-supported MA in Media Studies from Concordia questions power dynamics and insider/outsider relationships in social practice through interviews with artists and creative analysis of her own field work. 

Danica's knowledge of education and community-building comes from her work as the Program Coordinator at Musagetes (a socially engaged arts organization); as a founding member of the editorial collective of Publication Studio Guelph (a sibling studio of an international publishing network that attends to the social lives of books); her participation in the creation and development of the Benčić Youth Council (a radical arts education program for youth in Rijeka); and as the Education Officer and Acting Curator at the former Humber Galleries.