Scarborough Arts is back with our 36th Annual Juried Exhibition. After another year in pandemic and a world influx, we asked artists how they have retreated inward. In what ways has our community of artists been pushed or challenged to reimagine themselves, find new depths?

Our Annual Juried Exhibition, "New Depths," will be happening on Saturday, November 27, 2021 from 2PM-4PM. The event will showcase selected works, feature artist talks, and opportunity to connect with fellow artists in Scarborough. Viewers will be provided with live captioning throughout. We invite members of the public to join us via livestream on our Youtube and Facebook.

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Scarborough artists showed up with a beautiful array of artworks spanning visual arts, photography, and writing that we are so excited to share with the community. This year's exhibition is juried by queer interdisciplinary Anishinaabe (Algonquin) artist, Natalie King, and Scarborough-based poet and community organizer, Elizabeth Mundeyo. The exhibition and event were programmed by Emily Peltier and Nadine Rifai, and the theme was curated by Issaq Ahmed and Kyle Jarencio.

If there are any questions or concerns about this form, or any digital accessibility needs we can accommodate, please reach out to us at hello@scarborougharts.com. To learn more about our Annual Juried Exhibition, please visit scarborougharts.com/programs/juried-exhibition

Meet the New Depths Jurors

Natalie King is a queer interdisciplinary Anishinaabe (Algonquin) artist, facilitator and member of Timiskaming First Nation. King's arts practice ranges from video, painting, sculpture and installation as well as community engagement, curation and arts administration. King is currently a Programming Coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre in Tkaronto.

Often involving portrayals of queer femmes, King’s works are about embracing the ambiguity and multiplicities of identity within the Anishinaabe queer femme experience(s). King's practice operates from a firmly critical, anti-colonial, non-oppressive, and future-bound perspective, reclaiming the realities of lived lives through frameworks of desire and survivance.

Elizabeth Mudenyo is a Scarborough-based poet, community organizer, artist and arts manager. She has worked all sides of the film festival circuit, with groups like the Regent Park Film Festival, Hot Docs, and recently the Racial Equity Media Collective, among others. She managed Home Made Visible, an award-winning nationwide archival project capturing the joys of BIPOC home movies. She continues to immerse herself in arts programming engaging the voices, imaginations and sacred knowledge of Black and Brown communities. She is a third of The Group Project, a collective envisioning a new arts & culture space in/for Scarborough. She continues to practice community care and intentional placemaking through her work with Justice for Migrant Workers and the Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. Her first poetry chapbook, With Both Hands, is available through Anstruther Press.