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Welcome to our new Curatorial Coordinator

Mayworks Welcomes our New Curatorial Coordinator, Mitra Fakhrashrafi

Beginning in street art, Mitra Fakhrashrafi (she/her) is a curator and mixed media artist interested in creating places of sanctuary and indebted to border abolition organizing. Mitra is co-founder of Way Past Kennedy Road, a collective supporting artists living at the margins in producing, exhibiting, and profiting from their storytelling practice. Working alongside artists and organizers, Mitra has exhibited across Toronto, Montreal, and Brooklyn in artist-run centres including Xpace Cultural Centre and Margin of Eras Gallery.

Mitra is a member of the Whippersnapper Gallery Board of Directors and has worked with Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine, the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario, and the UTSC Women and Trans Centre. Most recently, she completed a Geography and Planning MA thesis assessing the impacts of Toronto’s ‘shisha ban’ on Muslim communities across the Greater Toronto Area, especially with regards to ongoing surveillance and forced displacement. In her spare time, she listens to music that emerges from Toronto; a since-always queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic city.