Victoria GLAM wants to make you feel at home
Victoria University’s own Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) pre- professional students organisation is hosting an exhibition in March 2025 centring on the theme of home. All students from across the University of Toronto are invited to donate any pieces which resemble home to support this exhibition.
Victoria GLAM routinely hosts year-round events to enhance the connection between students and the industry of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. These events include but are not limited to industry panels, exclusive tours and workshops, paint and sips, and so much more. If you are looking for a strong and vibrant community that aligns with your artistic values, look no further.
A way to have a lasting impact with this organisation is to join the effort to supply everyday items which represent home to be presented in this year’s exhibition! The event will be memorialised through an exhibition catalogue slated to be distributed after the event. Items that you feel have a strong connection to your roots, the place where you feel safe and loved, or the place where you long to be are on this year’s donation docket.
Vic’s GLAM asks us, how is home constructed? What is it about the materials within your home or personal space that make the environment worth inhabiting? Are you an international student or an immigrant? If migration has played a role in your experiences and connections to home, Vic GLAM would love to hear from you. Diasporic connections make the process of establishing a new home worthwhile. Does your connection to childhood or nostalgia in general influence your feelings of home? If your connection to your home and childhood was interrupted through the process of war and mass migration, there is a place for you within this exhibition. The loss of one’s home or the feeling of alienation play an important role in telling the story of what home means for members of the UofT community.
The organisation will be accepting submissions within the context of textiles: shirts, sweaters, blankets, and quilts; creative pieces: art, literature, and music; personal affects: photography, heirlooms, jewelry, toys, etc; documents: zines, pamphlets, print, newspapers, etc; and digital media: photographs, playlists, social media profiles, a website, videos, and video games.
Vic GLAM knows that the UofT encompasses a diverse student body of different ages, genders, cultures, races, and orientations, and wants as many opportunities as possible to represent this diversity. The organisation has a dedicated team of curators who will work hard to do justice by any and all donations to the exhibition. They look forward to curating the diverse tapestry of objects representing the UofT student body in a manner that is authentic and best depicts what home means to everyone.
If this exhibition speaks to you, do not hesitate to donate your objects using the Google form on their social media platforms and website. If you have any questions, you may reach out to [email protected] for matters that are more personal. The deadline to submit your items to the google form is December 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM.
In the event that you do not feel compelled to submit, but still want to be involved in Victoria College’s pre-professional GLAM organisation, you can follow them on Instagram, subscribe to the mailing list, and keep up with their current and upcoming events.
Either way, they hope to welcome you into their community soon.
