Date/Time
Date(s) - 18/10/2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunchtime talks are back! Join us in-person at the McMaster Museum of Art to hear more about our critical collection exhibition Chasm. Speakers include Chasm co-curator Betty Julian, and artists and emerging curators in the M(M)A mentorship program Alex Jacobs Blum and Christina Leslie.

Talk with Alex Jacobs-Blum
Wednesday, October 18, 12:30-1:20 PM

About the Speaker: Alex Jacobs-Blum
Alex Jacobs-Blum (Lower Cayuga of Six Nations/ German), is a lens-based artist and curator based in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, ON). Jacobs-Blum’s deep passion for community, relationship building, uplifting youth and challenging settler colonialism are integral to her practice and methodology. She strives to empower change by pushing boundaries to disrupt institutional spaces. Jacobs-Blum received a Bachelor of Photography at Sheridan College in 2015, where she was awarded the Canon Award of Excellence for Narrative Photography for her thesis. Since then, her artistic work has been exhibited at the University of Ottawa, Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice, the Woodland Cultural Centre, and Critical Distance Centre for Curators.

The BIPOC Curatorial Mentorship Program is generously supported by funds from the Department of Canadian Heritage.