Dynamic Duos: Women and Mentorship - Sarah Crawley and Jaime Black

  • Friday, October 30–Thursday, December 10, 2015
  • Parlour Coffee, 468 Main Street

Dynamic Duos: Women and Mentorship
Sarah Crawley and Jaime Black

Over the past three decades, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) has built a thriving, intergenerational community devoted to shared knowledge and resources. Largely, this has been achieved through mentorship. Established women artists share experiences, skills, networks and know-how with developing artists. This model of art education has proven to be nothing short of transformative, and many artists credit MAWA with being pivotal in their professional practices. In 2010, photo-based artist Sarah Crawley mentored interdisciplinary artist Jaime Black in MAWA’s year-long Foundation Mentorship Program.

Sarah Crawley

untitled, archival pigment print, 2015

In her art practice, Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials. Her most recent work explores the impact that place has on identity.

Jaime Black

Untitled, digital photograph, 2015

Jaime Black is a multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishnaabe/Cree and European descent. Black’s work explores themes of gender, identity, place and resistance through installation, photography and performance.