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Annie Canto

Continuing Studies Instructor and Sessional Faculty

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Education:

BFA, University of Idaho
MFA, ECU

Bio

Annie Canto is a visual artist and educator living on the unceded homelands of the hənqəminəm and Skwxwú7mesh speaking peoples in Burnaby, British Columbia. The underpinnings of Annie’s socially engaged art practice use critical race theory and women of colour feminist theories to question the complex systems that govern our relationships.

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Research Interests

In comic, installation, social practice and print-based practices, Annie is interested in exploring experiences of social rupture and its flipside of kinship and belonging; misconnections, halting attempts, the fault lines, the absurd, all those unintentionally telling moments that expose the things we simultaneously fear and long for. Annie is interested specifically in how these moments are inspired by cultural histories and stories of migration. Alongside these art and teaching practices, Annie supports the creation of co-ops by and for racialized and migrant communities at Solid State Community Industries in Surrey, B.C.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Social Science SOCS 302 26/FA

Description

This course offers the opportunity to critically engage with defined topics in the social sciences as they relate to ethics of representation by introducing methods and practices for building community relationships, cultural diversity and social activism. Specific historical, cultural and social contexts will be explored using approaches such as ethnography, documentary, social justice studies, critical disability studies, and environmental studies to broadly address ethics of representation in art, media and design practice.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Foundation Studio Courses FNDT 108 26/FA

Description

This course explores a range of creative processes to develop ways to connect thinking, making, and writing in an art and design context. Students will learn to contextualize projects in social, political, ecological and personal ways and engage in creative problem solving through iteration, experimentation, improvisation, and adapting to accidental discoveries as a generative part of the creative process. Through process-based learning and practice, students will experiment with interdisciplinary explorations framed by research skill development through collaborative projects, peer reviews, discussions, individual assignments, and critique-based studio sessions. Students will produce multiple versions of ideas from concept to content to creatively solve problems while determining new ways to view art + design practice overall.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.