PAVED Arts
PAVED Arts is a non-profit, artist run centre for production, presentation, research and dissemination of contemporary media arts. The word PAVED is an acronym signifying the integration of media art forms addressed by our mandate: photographic, audio, video, electronic, digital. PAVED Arts exists to support artists who work in these media.
PAVED Meant is a biennial publication of critical writing produced by PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Founded in 2012, it supports interdisciplinary dialogue around contemporary media and lens-based art practices. By contextualizing exhibitions and amplifying underrepresented voices, PAVED Meant contributes to critical discourse across aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of media art.
dis assembly
dis assembly is a collaborative and supportive arts co-lab dedicated to supporting conditions for neurodiversity; rethinking support and collaboration; and creating networks of mutual support. We are inventing our own ways of living.
Dena Davida
Dena Davida, an artivist curator living in Montreal, is also an ethnographic researcher, dance teacher, dancer, editor and indexer. She completed her doctorate at the Université de Québec (2006) where she taught improvisation, composition, creative dance pedagogy, dance aesthetics and anthropology. She co-founded and curated the Tangente dance presenting space (1980-2019) and the Festival international de la nouvelle danse (1985+). Her writings on dance and culture are widely published. In 2022, she initiated the biannual TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation. a seminal publication for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in live arts.
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John Climenhage
John Climenhage is a painter. In conversation with poets, philosophers, fellow painters, and other artists over his 30+ year career, he has engaged in concerted formal and conceptual exploration and creation of charged and abstracted spaces en plein air as well as in-studio, that are deeply informed by current socio-political conditions and events, both local and global. Even before the 2015 release of the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) report made soberingly clear the implications of landscape painting in Canada (specifically how the painterly capture of “wild spaces” can serve to mirror and amplify the deleterious impacts of the doctrine of Terra nullius), Climenhage was exploring different kinds of space in painting beyond direct representation. Informed by a longstanding interest…Find out more
Jenelle Smith
Jenelle Smith is a first generation Jamaican-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. Smith is an emerging artist whose dreamlike work delves into intricate concepts of the mind. Working in digital and analog image-based media, Smith addresses topics such as mental health, technology, race, and family. A recent graduate from the OCAD University Photography program, she strives to challenge conventional perceptions and spark conversations through her work.Find out more