Ria Links Artists for Systems Change:
Salon in the Cloud #1
Monday, October 26, 2020, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
cj fleury shows brush technique to Pierre Barrette's visitors from Belgium, during Bruyère's busy Life-Changing Day CFRA-CTV fundraiser. The figurative mural projects were designed as collaborative art-actions for patients and their visitors, and to address ideas of presence and transformation.Photo credit: Liisa Vexler
This was the first of what we hope will be a series of virtual Salons presented by local artists who practice Art as Social Action. The first artist, cj fleury, was an easy choice, as her work has always been focused on co-creative processes with diverse communities, crossing art with other sectors.
Sharing many images, ideas-in-process, and participant feedback, cj gives us a peek at her two years of R&D for Bruyère's new Artist in Residence program developing a study with a research team within this vast, multi-site academic health-care organization. She introduces us to some of her social, educational, and scientific learning curves, ethics, and consent matters for artists in this context.
See a series of patient-centered, care-based collaborative projects, with a range of community players: long-term and temporary-stay patients, family members, individuals or groups from medical, technical, volunteer, communications, and facility-management teams. The larger goals are to design a sustainable program that brings cultural access and creative engagement to the citizenry in health-care settings; to bring more artists into residency positions; to share information through publication(s) in different types of media; to amplify this type of work through arts education, and to break down too-much silo-thinking.
You will find a link to her presentation HERE
About the artist: cj fleury lives in Wakefield and is recognized for bringing the public into public art. Exploring the dynamics of diverse "communities," she looks through an anthropological lens, motivated by a belief in the human spirit and the magic of people's "aha moments." cj's approach builds on decades of welcoming non-artists into her public commissions and community-based projects. She takes a design-thinking, or iterative process approach to program co-design, placemaking, and art production. cj welcomes your feedback, questions, and interest; valuable components for system change.
Her Culture Days project, Be moved by ART at Bruyère, 2020, was the Spotlight winner for accessibility. See Ontario Culture Guides https://oncultureguides.ca/spotlight-2020-winners/
Bruyère Artist in Residence
Bruyère mail address cjfleury@bruyere.org
Culture Days - Be Moved by ART at Bruyère
Lightscape at Blair Station LRT
cj thanks the sponsors of the AiR Bruyère Program:
