Get Noticed 2024
December 4 - 21
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 5
Get Noticed 2022, Installation image.
The Red Head Gallery is pleased to announce that Get Noticed is back!
Get Noticed is our bi-annual exhibition of visual artists selected by two Toronto curators noted for actively raising the bar for Canada’s art world. Artists will be selected by Na’ama Freeman of NAMARA Projects and Erin Szikora, interim curator of the Doris McCarthy Gallery. The final, curated exhibition will be on view at the Red Head Gallery from December 4, 2024, to December 21, 2024, with an opening reception on Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 5:30 - 8:00 pm to celebrate the artists.
Up to 18 unrepresented artists, varying in mediums, will be selected by our jurors.
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
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.
