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Students and alumni from �첥��Ƶ will be showcasing their artistic talents at this year’s .��Taking place from 7 p.m. on Oct. 5 to 7 a.m. on Oct. 6, Nuit Blanche is a free, all-night celebration of contemporary art that transforms Toronto’s public spaces into extraordinary landscapes. This year’s theme, Bridging Distances, invites audiences to explore the ways they experience and perceive distance.��

One standout piece at this year festival comes from Shannon Garden-Smith, a current student in the Visual Arts PhD program in �첥��Ƶ’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD). Her captivating new installation, , is made of unfixed, vibrantly dyed sand, recreating historical marbling patterns at an immersive scale. Audiences are invited to move through the work as a snail might, gently interacting with the pattern – disrupting, unmaking and remaking it in the process. ��

Through her installation, she weaves together personal, environmental and colonial narratives dedicated to Lake Ontario and its surrounding ecosystem.��

Garden-Smith credits AMPD with providing her the essential resources and facilities to bring Snail Work (for the lake) to life. “There’s a really great community of PhD students here at AMPD – it’s important to have those people there to challenge you in the right kinds of ways,” she says. She also acknowledges Professor Brandon Vickerd, Chair of the Visual Art & Art History Department, whose support allowed her to work in the school's facilities.��

Also featured at this year’s Nuit Blanche exhibitions are the following �첥��Ƶ-affiliated creatives, whose diverse projects span curatorial roles and artistic installations, showcasing the depth of talent emerging from the University:��

• Gary Barwin (BFA ’86) – Bird Fiction��
• Nathan Bruce (BFA ’21) – Love Across Distance��
• Meghan Cheng (MA ’17) – Lumen:Air at Humber Polytechnic��
• Elham Fatapour (MFA ’21) – Bodies of water, Bodies of rocks at Humber Polytechnic; Echoes of a Garden: Blossom and Bridges at Humber Polytechnic��
• Winta Hagos (BA ’21) – TIZITA – Coded Whisper, It’s Ok* Studios��
• Roxanne Ignatius (BFA ’05) – The Bright Web��
• Niloo Inalouei (MFA ’21) – Traversing Orbits at Humber Polytechnic��
• Alexandra Iorgu (BEd ’10) – Finding Roots Together
• Trevor Janega (BEd ’14) – home is what I call the other place when I'm not there
• Anique Jordan (BA ’11, MES ’15) – I've come to find this place
• Vladimir Kanic (second-year MFA student) – Living Algae Cyborg��
• Mishann Lau (BFA ’96) – What are you Saying?, Harbour Square Park lookout��
• Germaine Lui (MA ’11) – Sing Sing (Starfield)��
• Charmaine Lurch (MES ’15) – One:Many & Nursing Wounds, Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism
• Andrea Nann (BFA ’88) – MOVING IN!, MABELLEarts
• Bee Pallomina (MFA ’13) – MOVING IN!, MABELLEarts
• Michelle Peraza (MFA ’22) – Traversing Orbits at Humber Polytechnic��
• Vivek Shraya (MA ’16) – Nuit des mauvais jours, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
• Syrus Marcus Ware (PhD ’21) – Nuit Blanche artistic team co-curator of the And the Spaces Between Us Smiled exhibition

Learn more about Nuit Blanche on the . 

With files from School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design staff

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