Born 2 Fly / Too Fly – an Artist Talk with Emkay Adjei-Manu
"Join us in a guided discussion and community roundtable with Brampton artist, Emkay!
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Emkay currently has an installation up at the City of Brampton’s Convenient Art Gallery, called “Born 2 Fly / Too Fly”. This series is a large-scale reproduction of an original analogue collage, digitally scanned and printed on polyester vinyl. The composition layers found images and printed materials into a dense collage that emphasizes texture, scale, and material transformation.
This session is the perfect opportunity to ask Emkay about this series, what it’s like to exhibit work, and chat about how to process of enlarging small scale work into large scale works!
Emkay currently has an installation up at the City of Brampton’s Convenient Art Gallery, called “Born 2 Fly / Too Fly”. This series is a large-scale reproduction of an original analogue collage, digitally scanned and printed on polyester vinyl. The composition layers found images and printed materials into a dense collage that emphasizes texture, scale, and material transformation.
This session is the perfect opportunity to ask Emkay about this series, what it’s like to exhibit work, and chat about how to process of enlarging small scale work into large scale works!
About the Artist:
Emkay Adjei-Manu is a multidisciplinary artist, community-engaged arts worker and researcher. Their professional work and creative practice are rooted in arts-based research, narrative exchange, and community building as a method of using arts as a catalyst for social and political transformation. They have a Social Work background and works as a Digital Storyteller at the ReVision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph where they utilise various arts methods as a medium to explore conversations around systemic injustice(s) through workshop facilitation and digital storytelling. They’ve also worked as an Artist Residency curator for racialized artists for a non-profit’s arts-organization, as well as an editorial assistant for C Magazine. Through community arts leadership and collaboration, they’re interested in building spaces outside of the central core that support Black, Indigenous, & racialized artists and cultural workers who are under-resourced and multiply marginalised."
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Emkay currently has an installation up at the City of Brampton’s Convenient Art Gallery, called “Born 2 Fly / Too Fly”. This series is a large-scale reproduction of an original analogue collage, digitally scanned and printed on polyester vinyl. The composition layers found images and printed materials into a dense collage that emphasizes texture, scale, and material transformation.
This session is the perfect opportunity to ask Emkay about this series, what it’s like to exhibit work, and chat about how to process of enlarging small scale work into large scale works!
Emkay currently has an installation up at the City of Brampton’s Convenient Art Gallery, called “Born 2 Fly / Too Fly”. This series is a large-scale reproduction of an original analogue collage, digitally scanned and printed on polyester vinyl. The composition layers found images and printed materials into a dense collage that emphasizes texture, scale, and material transformation.
This session is the perfect opportunity to ask Emkay about this series, what it’s like to exhibit work, and chat about how to process of enlarging small scale work into large scale works!
About the Artist:
Emkay Adjei-Manu is a multidisciplinary artist, community-engaged arts worker and researcher. Their professional work and creative practice are rooted in arts-based research, narrative exchange, and community building as a method of using arts as a catalyst for social and political transformation. They have a Social Work background and works as a Digital Storyteller at the ReVision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph where they utilise various arts methods as a medium to explore conversations around systemic injustice(s) through workshop facilitation and digital storytelling. They’ve also worked as an Artist Residency curator for racialized artists for a non-profit’s arts-organization, as well as an editorial assistant for C Magazine. Through community arts leadership and collaboration, they’re interested in building spaces outside of the central core that support Black, Indigenous, & racialized artists and cultural workers who are under-resourced and multiply marginalised."
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