Queerborough Speaker Series: Changing Portraits Painting Workshop with Curtia Wright

Event Description

In this hands-on session, participants will create symbolic self-portraits using painting, collage, and personal reflection. Participants are invited to explore their journeys with gender, queerness, and identity. This workshop is designed to help participants explore their journey as Queer individuals thinking of the moments when they first became conscious of their queerness and relationship with their body and gender. It will focus on themes such as validation, awakening, feelings of
inadequacy, and self-perception, using painting as a medium to connect with and process the emotions and experiences.

Facilitator Bio

Curtia Wright is a multidisciplinary Fine Artist, Mural Artist and Arts Educator based in Toronto, Ontario. She received her BFA at OCAD University in the Drawing and Painting program in 2015. Her murals fuse elements of fantasy, sci-fi and surrealism with vibrant transportive colours used to animate their environments.The work she creates looks at mental health, metaphysics, and the ephemerality of dreams and memory through a sci-fi lens. She has collaborated on public art projects with Community organizations, Commercial and Private mural commissions across Canada and Internationally.

Website: https://www.curtiawright.com/