Canadian artist Aleks Bartosik has long used painting, drawing and sculpture to explore feminist ideas. Her life experiences were the inspiration behind the first edition of “Art-making Inspired by Feminist Ideas,” a course at the Art Gallery of Ontario that saw a dozen participants explore feminism through various visual mediums including zine-making, collage, painting and sculpture. but I don’t want that to be the only thing that (participants) take away from it,” Bartosik said in March after the conclusion of the first edition. “(I hope they get) a sense of achievement and self-expression to speak through visual language, to inspire change or create a dialogue about feminism and talk about ideas to end sexism, oppression, things like that,” she said. “Art-making is just one form they can do that through without standing around and picketing.”The second edition of the course will run for five weeks starting May 3, and costs $275 for AGO members or $355 for the public.

Source: thestar April 14, 2017 15:00 UTC