The University of Toronto Scarborough,also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC,is one of the three campuses that make up the tri-campus system of the University of Toronto. Located in Scarborough,Toronto,Ontario,Canada,the campus is set upon suburban parkland in the residential neighbourhood of Highland Creek. It was established in 1964 as Scarborough College,a constituent college of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The college expanded following its designation as an autonomic division of the university in 1972 and gradually became an independent institution. It ranks last in area and enrolment size among the three University of Toronto campuses,the other two being the St. George campus in Downtown Toronto and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Ontario College of Art &Design University,commonly known as OCAD University,is a public university of art and design located in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. The main campus is adjacent to the Art Gallery of Ontario,within the Grange Park neighbourhood. The school is Canada's largest and oldest educational institution for art and design. OCAD U offers courses through the Faculties of Art,Design,Liberal Arts and Sciences,and alternative programs. The enabling legislation is the Ontario College of Art and Design University Act,2002.
Ghetto Concept is a Canadian hip-hop duo from Toronto,Ontario,composed of Kwajo Cinqo and Dolo. Infinite,who is currently a solo artist,is a former member of the group.
Graph Nobel is a Canadian indie/alternative/pop musician and songwriter. Her music is "hip-hop inspired with punk rock abandon".
Bruce Kidd,is a Canadian academic,author,and athlete.
Doris McCarthy,LL.D. was a Canadian artist known for her abstracted landscapes.
Sara Louise Diamond,is a Canadian artist and was the president of OCAD University,Canada.
Bonnie Devine is a Serpent River Ojibwa installation artist,performance artist,sculptor,curator,and writer from Serpent River First Nation,who lives and works in Toronto,Ontario. She is currently an associate professor at OCAD University and the founding chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program.
Shary Boyle D.F.A. is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture,drawing,painting and performance art. She lives and works in Toronto.
Cheryl L'Hirondelle is a Canadian multidisciplinary media artist,performer,and award-winning musician. She is of Métis/Cree (non-status/treaty),French,German,and Polish descent. Her work is tied to her cultural heritage. She explores a Cree worldview or nêhiyawin through body,mind,emotions,and spirit;examining what it means to live in contemporary space and time.
Ron Nelson is a Toronto-based DJ,broadcaster,music promoter,producer and educator best known for his role in popularizing both hip hop music and later dancehall and reggae music in Canada. He helped promote and develop early Canadian hip hop acts such as Maestro Fresh Wes,Michie Mee,Rumble &Strong and the Dream Warriors.
Jordan Bennett is a multi-disciplinary artist of Mi'kmaq descent from Stephenville Crossing,Newfoundland,also known as Ktaqamkuk. He is married to Métis visual artist Amy Malbeuf.
Zainub Verjee is a Kenya born Canadian video artist,curator,writer,arts administrator and public intellectual. She began her career in the Vancouver arts community of the 1970s,which was steeped in interdisciplinary,intermedia,and intercultural practices. Having made her mark as an emerging artist,she shifted the emphasis of her work to curatorial,administrative and policy arenas. Applying the insight,creativity and criticality of an artist,she has brought “institutional critique”into the workings of the institution itself. Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts,Tactical Video Movement,Third Cinema and the post-Bandung Conference decolonization,Verjee has been embedded in the history of women’s labour in British Columbia. In February 2020 she was awarded the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “outstanding contribution to the arts”. In 2021 she was conferred an honorary doctorate by the OCAD University recognizing her outstanding contribution to arts,racial and gender equity She was elected as a Senior Fellow of the Massey College at University of Toronto in the Fall of 2021. Earlier she was appointed as McLaughlin College Fellow at the York University. In 2022 she was conferred Doctor of Fine Arts,honours causa,by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD University,Halifax
Charmaine Andrea Nelson is a Canadian art historian,educator,author,and independent curator. Nelson was a full professor of art history at McGill University until June 2020 when she joined NSCAD University to develop the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery. She is the first tenured Black professor of art history in Canada. Nelson's research interests include the visual culture of slavery,race and representation,Black Canadian studies and African Canadian history as well as critical theory,post-colonial studies,Black feminist scholarship,Transatlantic Slavery Studies,and Black Diaspora Studies. In addition to teaching and publishing in these research areas,Nelson has curated exhibitions,including at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa,Ontario,and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal,Quebec.
Andrea Fatona is a Canadian independent curator and scholar. She is an associate professor at OCAD University,where her areas of expertise includes black,contemporary art and curatorial studies.
Haviah Mighty is a Canadian rapper from Brampton,Ontario. She rose to prominence in 2016 as a member of the hip hop group The Sorority,before releasing several EPs on her own,most notably Flower City,in 2017. Her first album,13th Floor,was released in 2019,and won the 2019 Polaris Music Prize.
Catherine Marie Daley was a Canadian visual artist and educator located in Toronto,Ontario.
Northside Hip Hop Archive (NSHHA) is a digital archive of Canadian hip hop culture from the 1980s and 1990s. NSHHA aims to preserve cultural artifacts from the pioneering years of the Canadian hip hop scene. This online archive digitizes oral histories,event flyers,posters,street magazines,album covers,newspaper articles,graffiti and analog recordings. Founded by Dr. Mark V. Campbell aka DJ Grumps,in 2010,NSHHA “take[s] seriously the accomplishments and hidden histories of Canadian hip hop and is interested in providing resources for future generations of hip hoppers.”
Thy Phu is a Canadian author and academic who is a distinguished professor of race,diaspora and visual justice at the University of Toronto.
