Raging Grannies in Québec

Judith Brisson

judith.brisson@vcfa.edu 5149899702 Canada

Biography

Judith is a multi/interdisciplinary artist and educator and a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA –visual arts). With a multivalent, multidisciplinary practice, current works made during the pandemic are strictly visual and digital. Having founded a human rights focus group in the Estrie region of Québec,, her work has been a marriage and interplay of social activism and art creation. Judith’s writing has been featured in NACLA, Siafu Magazine, and the Upstream Journal and her art practice has been featured in The New Quarterly, Hyperallergic, Génération d’idées, and on Les Nouveaux Explorateurs (Canal +). She has also had feature interviews on Global TV and CBC radio. She has served as an elections observer in Mexico (2000 and 2003) and El Salvador (2012) as part of her volunteerism with the Social Justice Committee. In recent years, Judith has attempted to bridge the gap between art-making and activism through a variety of means – from furtive practices, to socially-engaged visual and performative works and collaborations that engage the public, so as to foster cultural dialogue, intercultural exchange and mutual understanding.

MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont (2016)

BFA in Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montreal QC. (2013)