06/01/2026
Join us on June 13th for Tracing Traces: Noticing in the Minor Key of the Downwrong, a workshop-walk led by artists Shannon Garden-Smith and Laila Fox!
This session will unfold as a gradual, collective walk through the University of Toronto’s St. George campus loosely structured around several anchor points. At each stop, the facilitators will share various stories and material lines of inquiry while inviting participants into exercises such as the creation of rubbings, tracings, and clay impressions that will allow us to deepen our pause and sensorial attunement.
Tracing Traces is presented as a program of the exhibition 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯.
📆 Saturday, June 13, 2026
🕛 1pm–3pm
📍 Northern entrance of Philosopher’s Walk, Bloor St W
Free and open to the public.
🔗 Registration is required. Read more and sign up through the link below.
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Shannon Garden-Smith is an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto of Scottish and Irish settler heritage. Garden-Smith is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Art at York University, having previously earned an MFA at the University of Guelph and Honours BA at the University of Toronto. Primarily working across sculpture and installation, Garden-Smith engages with the mutability and poetics of the lithic environment. She seeks to unsettle naturalized relationships to its extraction, drawing on sand and stone’s ability to hold complex possibilities for time, memory, and different futures.
Laila Fox is interested in how invisibility limns urban ecologies. Working across the geographies and visual arts, she considers how what is knowable/believable/noticeable challenges and shapes socionatural relations in urbanized places. Fox lives in Tkaronto/Toronto, and has been informed by the unceded lands and waters of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (aka Vancouver), and where ‘the spawning stream’ meets the shore of the global petrochemical industry (aka Sarnia/Chemical Valley).
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📸 Images:
1—Courtesy of the artists.
2—Shannon Garden-Smith. Photo: Polina Teif.
3—Laila Fox. Courtesy of the artist.
