An artist statement is a place to pause and put language around what guides our work—our lineage, our questions, and the knowledge we carry through making. It is less about ‘making a statement' and more about communicating your intention and how you work.
This two-part online workshop series invites artists to write or reimagine an artist statement through guided writing and reflection, and to explore how it might shift across different uses. Sessions include dedicated writing time, space for individual reflection, and optional peer exchange.
This workshop series is presented as part of KIMI — the ReDefine Arts Knowledge Incubator and Mentorship Initiative. KIMI is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Workshop dates:
📅 Tuesday, March 24 at 1-3pm ET
ASL provided by: Janine Guinn & Carolyn Carter
📅 Tuesday, March 31 at 1-3pm ET
ASL provided by: Janine Guinn & Tracy Hetman
Click here to register!
If Google Forms are not accessible for you, please email community@creativeconnector.art for assistance.
Access: ASL will be available, auto captions via Zoom, relaxed space, scheduled break.
At this time, we cannot provide CART captioning.
About ReDefine Arts
ReDefine Arts (established in 2005 as Red Dress Productions) creates and presents interdisciplinary and community grounded performance, installations and public artworks that advance disability justice, collaborative processes, and artistic innovation.
Alongside its collaborators, community members and partners, ReDefine Arts is re-defining what it means to be an artist. ReDefine Arts views the artist as a creator and visionary, and also: co-creator, listener, connector of ideas, guide, and choreographer. While there is space for this definition to grow in tandem with our work, core to this understanding is that the artist’s role is to facilitate community-centred practices that remain accountable to the artistry, the stories, and the people telling them.
Anna Camilleri
Founding Artistic Co-Director
Anna Camilleri works across diverse media including sculpture, installation, literature and theatre. A producer and public artist, her practice is activated through collaboration and mentorship. Anna has presented and exhibited at galleries and festivals such as Festival of Live Digital Art, Liminal: The Interdisciplinary Critical Femininities Conference, STEPS Public Art, National Queer Arts Festival, White Water Gallery, LIVE: Biennial of Performance Art (Grunt Gallery), National Library Archives. Her book works have been recognized by the LAMBDA Literary Foundation, the Association of Independent Publishers, and the American Library of Congress. Anna is also an Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency alum, a 2023-2024 Toronto Arts Council/Toronto Metropolitan University Leaders Lab fellow and a part-time professor for Centennial College Theatre Arts and Performance.
Tristan R. Whiston
Founding Artistic Co-Director
Tristan is a director, dramaturge, and community artist. He has written and directed five audio documentaries for CBC, including Middle C, which won the 2007 Premios Ondas Award for International Radio. He has directed Gender Play, trace, and recently, was dramaturge on the dance-theatre production Dancing With the Universe by Vivian Chong and Kathleen Rea that premiered at the Harbourfront Centre’s CoMotion: International Festival of Disability Arts. Tristan’s film pINCO Triangle was honoured with three 2018 Queer North Awards, including Best Canadian Film.
