FACILITATOR Ilene Sova is an artist, educator with black mixed race, indigenous and settler ancestry who lives with a disability. As such, she passionately identifies with the tenants of intersectional feminisms and has dedicated her life to “art-tivism”. Founder of FAC, Ilene Sova is a conceptual portrait painter who creates paintings which reference anti-oppression feminist themes. She has an MFA in painting from the University of Windsor and her paintings have been shown in Canada, U.S. and abroad. She has been featured in a variety of television, web and print media including, The Current, Canada AM, Toronto Star, CBC Radio and the Toronto Standard. She was also chosen to speak at Toronto’s first TEDx Women. Most notably, Sova was invited by two federal MPs to bring her work to Ottawa, Canada for the National Women’s Forum on feminism and last year she was invited to give an all university lecture at Southern University New York on Art and Social Change. Sova also teaches painting and drawing the Faculty of Art at OCADU.
☆Donation:
Cost of Sojourn: Survival and actions revealed in unspecific sites
Welcome to T/C Latvia : Latvian pavilion at Venice Biennale
James Lee Byars, 1932–1997
Lee Miller – Man Ray: Fashion, Love, War
James Turrell - Aftershock
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
THE CONSULTANT: PAIK’S PAPERS 1968-1979
Bruce Nauman. Neons Corridors Rooms
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
