MEET THE Curators foR GET NOTICED 2024
Na’ama Freeman. Photo by May Truong
NA’AMA FREEMAN
Na’ama Freeman (MFA, BA) is an independent curator based in Toronto, Canada. In 2024, she joined NAMARA as Curatorial Associate. Na’ama works at the crossroads of art and business, seeking to build and support cross-sector creativity, collaboration, and engagement. She has overseen research and provided curatorial support on numerous contemporary art exhibits and currently oversees a corporate art commissioning programme dedicated to supporting emerging local artists.
Community-focused art spaces dedicated to nurturing local and emerging artists are central to her practice. As a testament to this commitment, Na’ama co-founded naka collective in 2021, a curatorial collective geared towards supporting emerging local artists in alternative exhibition settings. Additionally, in 2022, she co-initiated Garden Creative, an arts collective aimed at fostering collaboration and support through creative actions.
ERIN SZIKORA
Erin Szikora is a curator and beadwork artist. Born and raised in Guelph and currently based in Toronto, she holds a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and an MA in Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Art Histories from OCAD University. She has held curatorial and research positions at the Art Gallery of Guelph, the University of Toronto, OCAD University, McMaster Museum of Art, Brock University, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. In 2024, she joined the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough as Interim Curator.
Erin's curatorial practice is rooted in a deep belief that art can change the world. Often working with emerging artists, she is interested in projects that deconstruct assumed authority and hierarchies, carving space for the building of new, more just futures. Her work follows an ethos of care and places relationship and community-building in its core.
Erin Szikora
