Admin & Access Work

Art Administration

With much of my administrative background cultivated on an artist-run centre’s operational Board of Directors, I carry a strong knowledge of the priorities and challenges of arts organizations and grassroot partnerships. My background is strengthened by the collaborations I have been a part of and many of the administrative roles I have held are in highly collaborative environments and centre community-building. 


Programming

As a programmer who is interested in the role of artist-curator, I take a strong interest in galleries that advance artist governance and collaborate, or are led by, Indigenous governance and principals. On a smaller scale, I have worked with a number of artists and networks, including disability arts groups, artist activists, and anti-psychiatry arts collectives on program development and delivery. My background in programming and artist publishing is also suited for zine and artist book festivals, publication launches, libraries, and initiatives. I have experience in promotions, communications, community-building, and event strategy in an arts and culture, matched with my training in art history and curatorial studies. 


Grant Writing

I have worked with several artist-run centres to ideate, draft, substantively edit, copy-edit, and report grants often with a focus on accessibility and low-barrier programming. With three years of experience working on the grant writing committee for Forest City Gallery, I have experience writing grant narratives across the diverse disciplines that the centre supports including literary, music, visual arts, community-driven arts, and media arts. With dedicated half a decade of experience in grant writing, I have an insightful working knowledge of both community foundations and municipal, provincal, and federal arts councils. I have a strong record of sucess securing accessibility-related funding at all levels (federal, provincal, municipal, foundation etc.) and have experience obtaining access support from arts councils for individual applicants. 

Non-profit Administration 

I have a great capacity for communications, outreach, membership development, programming, grant writing, policy development, and human resources such as, delivering performance reports, recruiting, hiring decisions, and equity audits related to disabled communities, 2SLGBT+ communities, and individuals with imbricating experiences with poverty. 


Committee Service

I have a strong capacity for committees in various formats and assembled to address diverse needs of organizations and in academia. My committee service ranges from lived-experience research creation advisory committees for graduate students, and working committees on operational Board of Directors including Executive Committees, to advisory committees to address a strategic area. From my robust committee experience I have a demonstrated background working collaboratively towards realizing projects, maintaining operations, and reaching strategic goals. 


Alt-text Writing

For over six years I have maintained an alt-text writing practice working with artists to describe their art and themselves. I have also worked with organizations to ensure digital access to their promotional materials through image, object, personage, and spacial description generation and strategy including Tangled Gallery, Artspace, and the Green Party of Canada. My alt-text work has been published by art publication projects like alttextselfies.net (along with the print equivilent) and featured on Post-Internet Literature: Alt-Text by Olivia Dreisinger’s Painwise Podcast. With a background in disability arts and art history, I bring a strong and efficient approach to all of my description work. I have participated in several Alt Text as Poetry workshops and draw from this method often. 


Accessibility Strategic Planning

Through my diverse governance and committee service, I have developed a formidable ability to translate grassroots disabilty advocacy and activism into strategic priorities for organizations seeking to accessibilize their spaces, programs, and workplaces to adhere to and surpass legal minimums. In this work, I specialize in serving the GLAM sector and non-profits. I have given elect accessibilty feedback to Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2024, 2025), Grunt Gallery (2024), Artspace (2024), and Creative Connector (2025) in consulting and working group contexts.