Rebecca (Becky) Bair
Assistant Professor, Foundation
Bio
Rebecca (Becky) Bair is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in photography. Becky was an AICAD teaching fellow in 2022 at OCAD University, and a sessional faculty member at ECU since 2019. She joined the faculty of Culture and Community full-time in 2024. Becky teaches in Foundation, prioritizing diverse, diasporic, Black, interdisciplinary, and cultural methodologies, materials, and makers.
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Research Interests
Becky Bair’s research explores the possibilities of specific representation and of identity through abstraction, non-figuration, and interdisciplinary materiality. Her artistic, professional and educational goals revolve around common themes of celebrating Black plurality as well as creating the conditions for interpersonal and intercultural care.
Becky’s work considers light and shadow, creating the conditions for collaborating with the sun by recognizing the significance of its rays in the making of melanized skin, as well as its environmental influence on perception. She often works with non-archival materials which will change in the presence of the sun as well as with UV sensitive materials like Cyanotypes. Becky is deeply involved in and committed to the decolonization of art and design academics by focusing on anti-racist and diverse ways of being, knowing, making, and learning.
