Emerging Art Writers Program 4
Closing Date of Opportunity: 9/26/2022
Name or Organization: Illingworth Kerr Gallery
Contact Email: Cassandra.paul@auarts.ca
Website: Application Form
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG) is seeking expressions of interest from current AUArts students to participate in the Emerging Art Writers Program 4 (EAWP 4). Organized through the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG), EAWP is a non-credit series of writing workshops, led by Faculty member Lyndl Hall and Community Mentor Shazia Hafiz Ramji. Current AUArts students in any year or program of study are encouraged to apply. Up to 6 will be selected to participate in the program. Upon completion, each of the participants produces a final piece of writing to be published in a printed catalogue produced by the IKG and distributed by C Magazine alongside their Fall issue.
Please fill out the MSforms application here by September 26, 4pm
Program Information
Dates: October 2022 – May 1, 2023
Sessions held in person on AUArts campus
Theme: Magic + Ritual
The fourth iteration of the Emerging Art Writer's Program will look at the role of magical or ritual practices in relation to art and art writing: how these practices can be utilized as a methodology to produce a text or as a lens to critically respond to a subject. Magic will be viewed as a mechanism for translation and transformation, and ultimately as a means for imagining the world differently.
Mentors
Faculty Mentor - Lyndl Hall
Community Mentor - Shazia Hafiz Ramji
SCHEDULE
October – November: 2 writing workshops/sessions led by mentors
Assignments: Pitch
January – March: 2 writing/editing sessions with mentors/peers + 1:1 meetings with mentors
Assignments: First + second draft
May 1: Final writing deadline
May – July: Publication design finalized and printed
Fall 2023: Distribution of publication
HOW TO APPLY
Please fill out the MSforms application here by September 26, 4pm
Application requirements:
Brief letter of interest indicating why you are interested in the program and thematic
Writing sample (no word limit). This could be a class assignment, or other piece of writing you’ve done. Please select a sample that reflects your interests and style of writing you hope to improve on
If you have any questions about the program or application process please email Cassandra.paul@auarts.ca
Faculty Mentor: Lyndl Hall
Lyndl Hall is a visual artist who has had solo exhibitions at the Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver; the Burnaby Art Gallery; the Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford; CSA Space, Vancouver; as well as participating in group exhibitions at the Sanatorium Project Space, Istanbul; the Western Front, Vancouver; and Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver. Their work has been published in The Capilano Review, West Coast Line, and by Publication Studio Vancouver and Moniker Press. Hall has a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal and a MAA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. She is a Sessional Instructor in the Visual Arts department at the Alberta University of the Arts and her work focuses on the relationship between mark-making and language.
Community Mentor: Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Shazia Hafiz Ramji is a writer based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver) and the territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, and the Métis Nation (Region 3), in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. Her writing has appeared in C Magazine and The Literary Review of Canada, and is forthcoming in Momus and The Malahat Review. Her award-winning first book of poems is Port of Being. She works as an editor for magazines and presses across Canada, including THIS magazine, Metatron Press, and Bookhug. Shazia is currently at work on two novels and reads Tarot every day.