PRIDE MONTH
PRIDE TORONTO PARTNERS WITH ARTISTS FOR PRIDE 2021 The initiative showcases local visual and digital artists this summer Pride Toronto has commissioned six artists to create original pieces for the Pride 2021 visual branding campaign efforts. Pieces from the selected artists will be used across a variety of visual branding campaign efforts and social media campaigns this summer. The assets or series of assets all incorporate themes related to Pride 2021 such as the Pride movement as a protest, the 40 years of Pride Toronto’s history, and our community. Here’s a bit more on each of the artists who are working with Pride Toronto this summer.
Mitch Duncan (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the east end of Toronto who is currently studying illustration at OCAD University. He loves reading comic books, painting, and walking and riding his bike around the city. He is best known for the posters he makes for anything: parties, drag shows, festivals, comedy shows, music events, etc. Besides making gig posters, he loves to create weird illustrations and paintings, and make zines. His first completed comic book, entitled The Sculpture Garden, is a queer sci-fi story about self-preservation in an isolating, brutalist cityscape, which he will be self-publishing once the pandemic is over. Pride TO / EOI Submission
Project: Pride 2021
Brian Jiang (they/them) is a queer non-binary artist and illustrator of Chinese descent based in Toronto. Their practice comprises of illustration, graphic design and fine art. Brian’s multidisciplinary works use both digital and analogue (drawing, painting) media to discuss topics such as identity politics, queerness, communities and communal spaces. Through Brian’s works, they seek to reconcile the complexity of personal identity and establish a connection between the individual, the physical and immaterial worlds. Brian finds inspiration in the formal qualities of folk art, ’60s Japanese graphic design, Surrealism, print ephemera and the natural world. They’re a 2020 graduate of OCAD University, and hold a Bachelors of Design in Illustration.
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Vivian Rosas (she/her) is a Toronto-based queer, Mestizx/Latinx multidisciplinary illustrator, dancer and muralist. Feminism, empowerment and diversity are recurring themes in her work. Her goal is to create imagery that expresses a sense of inclusiveness for underrepresented communities.
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