Creative Access Description Workshop

Dan Pon and Kira Saragih will present about the process of writing creative access descriptions (similar to image descriptions), specifically for artworks and archival materials. They will relate this work to developing and enacting strategies for a more accessible digital collection, drawing from their work with grunt’s digital archive, which documents forty years of artist-run programming, as well as theoretical and practical learnings from participation in grunt’s accessibility work. After their presentation, Dan and Kira will facilitate writing creative access descriptions for a selection of prints from the ECU Print Collection.

Bios:

Kira Saragih (she/her) is an artist based on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, BC). She holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University where she developed a textile practice of making crochet tapestries. Alongside her textile practice, she also founded ANTS/ASS (Artist Nurturing Thoughts and Skills/Alternative Support System) a multidisciplinary, emerging & student artist collective focused on group assembly that promotes long-term care and friendships.

Dan Pon (he/him) manages the archives at grunt gallery, where he works to preserve and activate material and non-material culture. He is interested in the practice of artists intervening in archives, liberatory community archives, and imaginative models at the intersection of visual arts and information science. Dan is also a librarian at Langara College and has an MLIS from the University of British Columbia.

This workshop is held in conjunction with the Dream Fields print exhibition and is made possible by the support of SSHRC.

For information about accessibility at the library please consult our Accessibility Information page or email archives@ecuad.ca