Photo credit: Anna Shkuratoff

What Artists Bring to the Table was a community program of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, organized by social practice artist Regan Shrumm, that took place every Sunday from July to November 2019. Regan says, the “project examined the wide range of narratives that food offers us”, where “participants worked directly with an artist to cook a meal or learn a food-related skill, and then sat down to discuss how the workshop related to a bigger food topic, like food security, sustainability, and food colonization.”

BIO

Regan Shrumm is a queer, genderqueer, and disabled curator, educator, and artist, who has been living on and off of the traditional and un-ceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations. They are from Italian, Polish, German, Scottish, and English ancestry. They have previously worked for museums such as the Museum of Northwest Art, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the National Museum of American History. Their practice focuses on questioning every system and aspect of society, as the arts allow us to understand, complicate, and contradict truths about human experiences. 

RESOURCES

• https://reganshrumm.com/
• https://reganshrumm.com/what-artists-bring-to-the-table/
• Instagram: @reganshrumm

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