I’m a visual artist and an award-winning art educator working on the edge of “what’s next?”  With such avant-garde teaching and research philosophy, my scholarly work aims to benefit seven generations to follow, because my practices are anti-oppressive, decolonial, community-based, and action-oriented.

My latest scholarly work has been centred on Ranciere’s distribution of the sensible to first, expose power structures that enables or disable our senses. Then, I go to Dorchety’s aesthetic democracy to help me trouble these structures. Thirdly, using Lacanian psychoanalysis and Deleuze and Guatarri’s rhizomatic theory I point to alternative realities for these power structures by proposing something I call: “The RE-distribution of the Senses”.

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba and the coordinator of the Masters in Art Education, where I teach courses on community art, visual thinking, visual anthropology, and arts-based research. Driven by a commitment to social and environmental justice through the arts, my work has a global reach, including research projects in Canada, India, South Africa, Jordan, and Brazil. Currently I am leading two SSHRC funded research projects in Brazil that investigate how popular culture and street art in Latin America can inform formal education in the North.

I recently concluded a third SSHRC funded project titled: “Museum Hacking” that challenged museum Eurocentric narratives in Canada. My academic publications are around community art, museum education and arts for social transformation and I am the co-author of the book: The Nature of Transformation–Environmental Adult Education.

My studio practice is multidisciplinary. I work with ceramics, oil and acrylic paintings, pencil drawings, digital drawings, and large scale murals.