Critical Distance Profile Type Organization

Tender Again is a mutual-aid, abolitionist, decolonial care initiative providing monthly drop-in bodywork, food, and community support for neighbors facing barriers to healthcare — prioritizing unhoused, frontline workers, low-income, Indigenous, Black, trans, and migrant community members Find out more

The 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective, founded in 2019 by artists Sarah Jane Estabrooks and Elizabeth Raymer Griffin, is a group of women artists working on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. Positioned at the intersection of motherhood and art, our Collective shares knowledge, encourages creative self-actualisation, empowers professional advancement, and advocates for representation and support for mothers and caregivers in the arts. In making our Mother/Artist status visible, we aim to empower other artists to do the same. Members are drawn from different lived experiences, types of training, and artistic expressions. As a group, we have come together around the specific challenges of combining artistic practice with the gendered, and very real, performance of motherhood. For some, these…Find out more

The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis (CBP) is an experimental, multidisciplinary research incubator and co-working research-creation hub, an archival nexus, and creative atelier/studiolab that is rooted in the importance of black study, Afro-Indigenous relations, and Afro-diasporic technologies. The CBP was established in 2022 and is led by Prof. SA Smythe. It is a coalitional space where transnational and anticolonial cultural workers, educators, researchers, technicians, artists, activists, system-impacted and other community members collaboratively and creatively attend to the genre-defying aesthetic interventions of Black life and Black studies. We embrace our roles as makers and maintainers, relishing liberatory practices and ideas about where we’ve been and (re)imagining where and who we want to be, together.Find out more

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) at The New School is a leading research hub dedicated to politically engaged art. Founded in 1992 during intense debates around free speech, identity, and the role of the arts, the VLC has consistently framed the arts as essential to civic life.

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Or Gallery is a non-profit artist-run centre that was initiated as a project space by Vancouver artist, Laiwan in 1983. Or Gallery strives to be a space of discourse and risk-taking in the production and consideration of contemporary art and related discourses, education and professional mentorship. Serving as a space that engages with the overlaps and connections between artists, curators, writers and cultural workers, the Gallery supports local and artistic communities through both professional and general-interest lectures, workshops and other outreach activities, which often include community-initiated programs. Or Gallery publishes artist books, editions and anthologies, and since 2010, has operated a small bookstore featuring local, small press and imported publications.

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