We’re always looking for new workshop ideas!  We are currently looking for workshop proposals in all artistic mediums.

Workshops will be online and in person.
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Artist Facilitators will be paid a standard fee as per CARFAC guidelines for their services.⁠
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Send your proposals to: agm.connect@mississauga.ca

We look forward to sharing more stories through art!

Vasundra Srinivasan

Vasundra S is the producer of border crossings, a podcast that celebrates the Art Gallery of Mississauga’s commitment to bringing people and communities together using art as a common denominator. In that role, she’s responsible for all aspects of the podcast’s production, including development of episode concepts, curating guests, interview content and sound design.

Vasundra is a newcomer to Canada, born and raised in India. She earned her MBA in contemporary marketing from Singapore. Following her graduation, she worked as a media planner and content producer for Group M, a global media investment company, before founding Scale Up Digital – a content marketing and digital production consultancy.

Certified in Design Thinking from IDEO and Applied Design from OCAD University of Continuing Studies, her passion for “making things” fuels her to build diverse skills consistently.

Vasundra is a multimedia artist who has trained and immersed herself in Creative Writing, Illustration, playing Indian Classical Music on the Violin, Yoga and Meditation over the past two decades. She considers her ability to be a many-model thinker and disciplined doer as what sets her apart as a creative producer. She finds herself most inspired at the intersection of technology and art. She is currently working on producing a graphic novel and a podcast as a lead artist for the Art Gallery of Mississauga’s border crossings project.

Sarah Abušarar

Sarah comes from a long line of storytellers on her paternal side. She tells stories to both adults and children. Sarah has told at various cultural centers, museums, art galleries, festivals, libraries, parks and homes.  Her favorite stories are ones that promote social change. Sarah has also used stories in a therapeutic way, with  children in refugee camps as well as refugee children in Toronto, as part of their therapy. She teaches stories at the Parent Child Mother Goose Program.

Claudio Ghirardo

Claudio Ghirardo is a graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, Inc., who worked as a freelance illustrator while going to school and then studied art. As time went on, he began to recognize that comics are an art-form and wanted to experiment with the medium. For Ghirardo, comics are visual literature and he got his inspiration from contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang who stated that the Chinese have a saying, “One reads a drawing.” This prompted him to explore how we read images in sequence in comics. Ghirardo contributed to “The 27 Club” anthology which got a Harvey Award Nomination for Best Anthology in 2016, contributed to a number of anthologies, is the artist for WrittenSins’ (an independent comic publisher) “And They Call Us Monsters” and “A Monster of a Betrayal”. He began doing his own webcomic in 2011, had his work shown at Fumetto Comics Festival in Luzern, Switzerland, and self-published a number of zines and comics.

Sid Sharp

Sid Sharp is a 25-year-old comic artist and emerging illustrator from Toronto. They collaborated in several community arts projects and installations across the GTA and Ontario. For the ‘border crossings’ Project, Sid facilitated community workshop and created an anchor/central character to feature stories shared by the communities in a graphic representation.

Sonja Rainey

Sonja Rainey is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and arts facilitator with a rampant curiosity for new ways of creating performance experiences and arts engagement. Her work encompasses installation, set and costume design; puppet and mask work; illustration and sculpture as well as the creation of short films and exhibition design. She has presented her work at the Vancouver Art Gallery, PAMA, Art Gallery of Mississauga, the Prague Quadrennial and most recently, Rainey has been an artist educator with the Canadian Opera Company and instructor at the Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance. She has worked extensively with MABELLEarts, Jumblies’ Theatre, Making Room Community Arts, the Community Arts Guild, The Bicycle Opera Project, urbanvessel and Ahuri Theatre.

Helen Yung

Helen Yung is a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto. Her current artistic work with newcomers to Canada has been recognized by a groundbreaking research partnership with Humber College. Her ongoing newcomers project combines art, community engagement and social innovation to suggest immediate ways to transform the settlement process for newcomers.

Anu Radha Verma

Anu Radha Verma is a queer, diasporic sometimes-femme with complex connections to ‘South Asia’.  She is a survivor, someone with lived experience of mental health struggles, and a resident of Mississauga. Anu Radha organizes with QTBIPOC sauga, with the hope to build trust, care and community across the expanse of the ‘burbs.