Facing Reality

✨Introducing Pablo Llana, an artist born in the City of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

He will be invited to the Artist Talk⬇️
🕙Time: 10:00 EST
📅Date: Wednesday, March 23
📍Location: Zoom Meeting

📩Thinking of talking to him?😋 Please don’t hesitate to DM us or leave a comment to sign up and attend the event!

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

✨Introducing Afifa Bari, a contemporary realist oil painter and textile artist based in Toronto.

She will be invited to the Artist Talk⬇️
🕙Time: 10:00 EST
📅Date: Wednesday, March 23
📍Location: Zoom Meeting

📩Thinking of talking to her?😋 Please don’t hesitate to DM us or leave a comment to sign up and attend the event!

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

✨Introducing Pearl A. Sequeira, a self-taught artist, and was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India, grew up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and now lives as a settler in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada.

She will be invited to the Artist Talk⬇️
🕙Time: 10:00 EST
📅Date: Wednesday, March 23
📍Location: Zoom Meeting

📩Thinking of talking to her?😋 Please don’t hesitate to DM us or leave a comment to sign up and attend the event!

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

✨Introducing Marie-Soleil Provençal, an artist from Québec, Canada.

She will be invited to the Artist Talk⬇️
🕙Time: 10:00 EST
📅Date: Wednesday, March 23
📍Location: Zoom Meeting

📩Thinking of talking to her?😋 Please don’t hesitate to DM us or leave a comment to sign up and attend the event!

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

Thinking of talking to our artists?😋
Here is the chance!⬇️

It’s our pleasure to announce that the Online ARTIST TALK-Facing Reality Art Exhibition will happen this week!!! We’ll invite five excellent artists featured in Facing Reality 2022 to share their thoughts.

🕙Time: 10:00 EST
📅Date: Wednesday, March 23
📍Location: Zoom Meeting

📩Please don’t hesitate to DM us or leave a comment to sign up and attend the event!!!

We’re looking forward to seeing you🤩

Today is the DAY!
We are so happy to announce that our exhibition starts! Yaaaay!

You can click the links here to start your journey! Enjoy!

Website: https://facingrealityutoro.wixsite.com/2022

VR Gallery: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/9436565

Thank you!
We’ve received so many amazing artworks! Thank you guys for the submissions!
We as the curators are currently selecting among the artworks~

Stay tuned for our exhibition!

🚨 Reminder: the exhibition will start on March 15, 2022

3 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY TO 📣

We’re hoping to raise awareness and make changes on the topic of environmental sustainability in fashion in the following topics:
- Animal Welfare and Sustainability🐆
- Fast Fashion🕺🏻
- Reusing and Recycling🧤
- Environment Pollution and Protection🏞

📎Please click the link in bio to apply to our exhibition

💬Message us for any inquiries or more details

MEET OUR TEAM!

Stephanie Kondo - Marketing Coordinator

Stephanie is a fourth year student at UTSC and double majoring in Arts Management and Media Studies. She works under the marketing team for Advertising. She have a passion for photography, video editing and fashion!

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Tweety Lee - Fundraising and development coordinator

Tweety Lee is a fourth year student majoring in Arts Management and Media Studies in University of Toronto Scarborough. She is one of the outreaching team members, focusing on making connections and communicating with artists all around the world! She is a huge fan of Disney, and therefore watching Disney + and Netflix on spare time is one of her favorite hobbies. Tweety is also an animal lover, a parent of two cats!

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Karina Li - Finance Coordinator, Marketing coordinator

Karina Li is currently a fourth year at University of Toronto, Scarborough and major in Arts Management and Media Studies. For this project, Facing Reality, she is one of the coordinators for Marketing. She did competitive fencing till her second year in university and now she like to draw in her free time!

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Chenyuan Zhu (Ellen) – Marketing Director, Finance Coordinator

Chenyuan Zhu (Ellen) is a senior year student at University of Toronto Scarborough. She is double majoring in Media Studies and Arts Management. She is the marketing director in our virtual art exhibition focusing on social media campaigns and ad placement. She also works as a finance coordinator. She loves to watch comedy and action movies and she is the parent of a cat.

We are here! 😍
Facing Reality members welcome everyone to join～

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Remandeep Sangha - Fundarising and outreach Director, Finance cooridinator

Remandeep Sangha is a fourth-year student majoring in Economics and Public Policy at University of Toronto Scarborough. She is the Director of the Fundraising and Development team at Facing Reality, and works cohesively with the finance team as the fundraising representative. She love volleyball and badminton, and developed a passion for cooking over the pandemic.

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Vithuja Jeyathees – Marketing Coordinator

Vithuja Jeyathees is a final year student at University of Toronto – Scarborough pursuing a major in Arts and Media Management. She is a Marketing Coordinator for Facing Reality. Her focus is on offline and online marketing for the virtual art exhibition. She love to paint, drive and play badminton.

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Jianyuan Kuang (Jennifer) - Website and Exhibition Director, Graphic design Coordinator, Finance Coordinator

Jianyuan Kuang (Jennifer) is a fourth-year student specializing in Arts Management and majoring in Studio at University of Toronto Scarborough. In 2021, She was the Advertisement and Operation Intern at NetEase and the Digital Marketing Volunteer at RDFI. She is experienced in website and graphic design including commercial advertisements and digital marketing materials design. In her free time, she loves playing Mahjong and watching Netflix. Recently she is obsessed with zombie movies.

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Yixuan Lin (Rita) - Marketing Coordinator

Yixuan Lin (Rita) is an emerging Arts Manager with a specialist in Arts Management at University of Toronto Scarborough. She was the Marketing Coordinator of the Facing Reality 2022 Online Gallery with social-media side. She loves cycling at the Riverside Promenade and she is planning to Xishuangbanna after graduation.

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Shiqi Yu (Jacaranda) - Finance Director, Website and Exhibition Coordinator

Shiqi Yu (Jacaranda) is a fourth-year Arts Management student at the University of Toronto Scarborough with two minors in Art History & Theatre and Performance Studies. She has worked previously with Wavelength Music and Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence. She loves photography, music, fashion and learning different languages!! She also has a keen interest in skateboarding and snowboarding, but is still learning…🛹🏂 She dreams of creating her own fashion brand in the future :)

FACING REALITY OPEN TO ALL！
Welcome everyone to join us!

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Jiaoe Zou (Zaneta) - Website and Exhibition Coordinator, Marketing Coordinator

Jiaoe Zou (Zaneta) is a fourth-year student specializing in Arts Management and majoring in Studio at University of Toronto Scarborough. She has worked previously with Wavelength Music and ShenZhen Media Group. She was the Marketing and Website design Coordinator of the Facing Reality 2022 Online Gallery. She loves photography, music, and movies.

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Lanchuan Zhang (Sabrina)-Fundraising and development coordinator, Finance Coordinator.

Lanchuan Zhang (Sabrina) is a fourth year student at University of Toronto - Scarborough, double majoring in Art management and media studies. She is a finance, fundraising and development coordinator for the project. Focusing on the outreach and funding for “Facing Reality”. She loves hiking and Netflix.

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Darian Nielsen - Graphic Design Director, Fundraising and development coordinator

Darian is a 4th year student at the University of Toronto Scarborough and alumnus of Macewan University. She is the Graphic Design Director as well as a member of the community outreach division for Facing Reality. Her hobbies include photography, reading, and hiking.

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Zijie Li (Jacob) - Marketing Coordinator

Zijie Li (Jacob) is an Arts management major student at UTSC- University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the marketing coordinator at Facing Reality 2022. His personal hobbies are doing anything related to marketing, working out, watching movies.

“FACING REALITY” COMING SOON‼️
🗓Launching Day: March 15
📍Location: Virtual Gallery&Website

The students from arts management program at University of Toronto is hosting a virtual art exhibition with global access, we are accepting all kinds of online submissions from around the world🗞

We’re hoping to raise awareness and make changes on the topic of environmental sustainability in fashion in the following topics:
- Animal Sustainability and Welfare🐆
- Fast Fashion🕺🏻
- Reusing and Recycling🧤
- Environment Pollution and Protection🏞

📎Please click the link in bio to submit your works!!!

Call For Submission

OPEN TO ALL

{ more info & links in ‘About’ }

Hello everyone! We are group of arts management students at UTSC who are focusing on bring virtual arts exhibition to a global scale, and we are currently accepting works from all over the world that are related to Animal sustainability and welfare, Fast fashion, refusing and recycling, also environmental pollution and protection.

-CALL FOR SUBMISSION -
We are excited to see your works! !
You can submit your artworks by scanning our QR code, or through the link in ‘About’.
We accept all medium as long as they can be viewed digitally.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions!!