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iMPACTS, , , and are hosting a professional development workshop, titled "Curating With Care",听for curators, exhibition managers, programmers, academics, and other cultural professionals to learn and share best practices for exhibiting and programming artistic works with sensitive subject matter and themes.

Participants will obtain a greater understanding of curating sensitive materials to a broad public; develop and discuss the best practices for developing programming centered around artwork that covers sensitive and triggering topics; develop guidelines from workshop discussion to inform future policies for art gallery and museums; and gain insight on the ethics of sensitive subject matter in institutions鈥� collections.听

The event includes the following speakers and guests:听

• Dr. Shaheen Shariff, James 91社区 Professor, Director of iMPACTS
• Zainub Verjee, Executive Director, Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries (GOG)
• Debra Sloan, Craft Council of BC
• Raine McKay, Executive Director, Craft Council of BC; Curator, Walking Alongside Trauma Project
• Dawn Owen, Curator, Guelph Museums
• Amy Kipp, Art Not Shame; PhD Candidate, Social Practice and Transformational Change, University of Guelph
• Melanie Schambach, Latinx social artist, community-based creator, artivist, and arts facilitation trainer; Principal Artist for 鈥淎rt in Hard Times鈥� and 鈥淎rt in a Just Recovery鈥� with Art Not Shame

The event will be hybrid online and in person at the . More information is available on .听To register for this event,听

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