ABOUT:
Art is an empowering tool to facilitate critical dialogue around feminism, anti-racism, 2SLGBTQAI+ rights, and environmental activism. This project, running from October 2021 to March 2022, will explore how art inspires and promotes social change and justice. This series will highlight queer, women-identifying, and BIPOC artists’ work through events such as panel discussions, workshops, artist talks, film screenings, work-sharing events, and live performances, culminating in a group exhibition and presentation series in Winter 2022.
CONTACT
Rachel Gilbert, Project Lead
e. rachel@easternedge.ca
Instagram: @easternedge.arc, #ArtForChange
Facebook:@easternedge.arc
ARTISTS & CURATORS
PRESENTATIONS
BETWEEN HERE AND THERE EXHIBITION
SYMPOSIUM
WRITINGS
In May of 2022, CÉGEP DE Saint Laurent students visited Eastern Edge to create a documentary on our centre. Thank you, Darya, Alexia, Adèle and Éloise, for wonderfully capturing our space!
We’d like to thank Emily Jan, John McCallum, and Brian Amadi for their time.
STAFF
Rachel Gilbert, Project Lead
Rachel Gilbert was born in Texas with family roots in Newfoundland, moving to the island in 2014 to study for BFA in Visual arts from Grenfell Campus. Working as an interdisciplinary artist, Gilbert specializes in painting and printmaking with subjects ranging from animals and nature to still-life and portraiture. She has been working with the arts community since 2016, starting with the Corner Brook Rotary Arts Centre’s Visual Arts Committee, a Collections Internship at The Rooms, to her work as the Communication & Design Assistant at St. Michael’s Printshop. Rachel recently worked as the Outreach Coordinator at Eastern Edge. She is also one of the lead organizers of the BIPOC Creators Collective of NL. Rachel currently lives and works out of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Ife Alaba, Project Assistant
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé par le gouvernement du Canada
Community Parnters
