Title: Co-Lead of Accessible Engagement Project (AEP)
Pronouns: she/her
Email: shanna@grunt.ca
Ask them about: Accessible Engagement Project (AEP)

Name Pronunciation: Shah – nah

Biography

Shanna is a Curator bringing in experience collaborating with disadvantaged youths, emerging BIPOC artists and the Disability community in disability and BIPOC led community projects and exhibitions. She continues to work with artists with disabilities in consultation and developing transformative critical models in art spaces, expanding on inclusive curation, exhibition accessibility design, artist residencies and public programming.

She approaches projects through the disability justice lens of comfort and care practices, supporting the professional development and ongoing learning with, for and by artists with disabilities. Shanna is a Canadian-Chinese Hard of Hearing Curator, Project Coordinator and Printmaker.

Contact Information

Email: shanna@grunt.ca
Shanna is Hard of Hearing and lipreads to communicate. She responds best through email and text messaging platforms. She is an oral speaker and will speak first to communicate. Feel free to send a quick email and/or text at shanna@grunt.ca.

Visual Description

Image Description: Shanna beams at the camera wearing a pale blue silky dress with a soft cardigan overtop. She wears her long dark hair down with blunt bangs falling across her forehead. Shanna is surrounded by large bright pink and orange obscure sculptures and paintings lining the black gallery walls.

She is small in stature, and you will find her wearing earthly-toned cozy outfits with a bounce in her small steps.