2021

Kachely Peters

DMG Educator-in-Residence

Activating the exhibitions 'Three-Thirty' and 'Anthony Gebrehiwot: From Boys to Men: The Road to Healing'

For the first year, the DMG is offering a four-month educator residency to Scarborough-based artist Kachely Peters.

During her residency, Peters is collaborating with artist and community leader Anthony Gebrehiwot, to create Meditations on Masculinities and Love, a six-month online program. Guided by artist and community leader Anthony Gebrehiwot, these intimate conversations provide the space for racialized folks who identify as men and non-binary to explore topics surrounding masculinities. The program looks to bell hooks’ text The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love and Gebrehiwot’s exhibition From Boys to Men: The Road to Healing.

Peters will also research, plan, and create enlightening programming and outreach related to the gallery’s current exhibition, Three-Thirty.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kachely Peters is a visual artist based in Toronto. A recent alum from the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Studio Art program, Kachely mainly works with drawing and painting. Delving into themes such as belonging, love, and the intimacy of experience, her recent works have taken a closer look at in-between spaces.

ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

The Doris McCarthy Gallery Educator-in-Residence Program provides an emerging arts professional with mentorship and resources in order to research, plan, and implement a schedule of programs and outreach for specific exhibitions and audiences. Residents will advance their own creative practice, challenging both themselves and Gallery visitors to engage with art in new and innovative ways.