Glodeane Brown writes the Culture Fancier blog and is programming & operations coordinator at CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area). We chat about her life being “arts adjacent” as she calls it, she extols the virtues of seeing art solo and shares insights about the power of art to change the way people see the world.
“One of my favourite stories: I was at a panel and the director of the Aga Khan museum was there and she told a story about a firefighter that was there on a public tour and he approached her after the tour and he said that he had held a grudge against muslims since 9/11. But after going through the tour of the Aga Khan and listening to her speak about the art, it kind of changed his mind. That’s really powerful. Someone can hold a belief for that long and then having someone speak about art can help change their mind or shift a view that maybe wasn’t correct or just they weren’t informed enough. So I think art can show us the world in a different way that maybe we didn’t consider before. Also, seeing other people’s experiences, I mean a lot of us live in our bubbles or echo chambers: you like what you like, you see what’s around you. But when you venture out into different spaces and you see different things, it opens your mind to different possibilities and how other people are experiencing things in the world.”
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