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Lillian Allen & Joanna Black: Learning for Social Change

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(Joanna Black) Work by Scott Boyko (Lillan Allen) Photo of HYP by Martin Reid Opening Feb. 5, 5.30 - 7 pm. Conversation 6 pm Exhibition runs from Feb 6 - May 4, 2018 9 AM -8 PM daily. CWSE Hallway Gallery OISE/UT, 252 Bloor Street West (just east of St. George & Bloor), 2nd Floor, Toronto FREE and accessible. Link to images from the opening as photographed and reinterpreted by Miklos Legrady:  http://www.mikloslegrady.com/joanna_black/social_change/index.html While socially engaged art, as a category of practice, is still a working construct, the artist who identifies as such is an individual whose specialty includes working professionally with/in society. Writes Pablo Helguera (2011) in Education for Socially Engaged Art , “Standard education practices – such as engagement with audiences, inquiry-based methods, collaborative dialogues, and hands-on activities – provide an ideal framework for process-based and collaborative conceptual [creative] practices (p.