Fine Arts Speaker Series-Fourth Upcoming Talk

[Sharon Dahmer]

The Department of Fine Arts would like to invite you to join us for the fourth in our Visiting Speakers Series. Our speaker will be visual artist and educator Pamila Matharu who will speak about her recent artistic research.

When:     Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 12:00 noon
Where:    Register ONLINE - Webex link- https://uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/onstage/g.php?MTID=ebb5766e68e3145db6d938997f2647316
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Pamila Matharu is a settler of north-west Panjabi, Indian descent, born in Birmingham, England, based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). A graduate of the Visual Arts and Fine Arts BEd programs from York University, she works primarily in visual arts, critical pedagogy and cultural production. A recipient of the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Art Councils creation/production grants, she has screened and exhibited her work locally, regionally, nationally. Recently she was awarded the CONTACT Photo Festival’s 2020 Burtynsky Photobook Award, the 2019 Images Festival Homebrew Award and the 2019 Ontario Association of Art Galleries’ Exhibition of the Year, for her critically acclaimed first solo exhibit One of These Things Is Not Like The Other at A Space Gallery, Toronto (2019). She’s been a volunteer Board member for CARFAC Ontario, Gallery 44, Toronto Artscape, Images Festival, and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre). Currently in research and development is Where Were You in ‘92?, a new project slated to debut in October 2021 at the Archives of Ontario an invitation by Archive I Counter-Archive, iterations will continue to unfold at the Or Gallery (Vancouver, BC) curated by Denise Ryner, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, ON), curated and dramaturgy by Emelie Chhangur, through the spring and summer of 2022 respectively.

For more information on this talk or questions about the Webex platform, please contact Bojana Videkanic bojana.videkanic at uwaterloo<mailto:bojana.videkanic at uwaterloo> or Sharon Dahmer  Sharon.dahmer at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:Sharon.dahmer at uwaterloo.ca>

Mark your calendars for more upcoming Fine Arts Visiting Speakers Series:
Zainub Verjee<https://canadianart.ca/author/zainub-verjee/> – on Tuesday March 23, 2021- 1:00pm EST
Dr. Amin Alsaden<https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/sessional-faculty/amin-alsaden> on Wednesday March 31, 2021 – 12:00 noon EST

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