Join artist Diane Borsato for a conversation with AGO curator Georgiana Uhlyarik about art, nature, and using the tools of a naturalist to make sense of things in museums.

Diane Borsato (BFA York University, MFA Concordia University, MA Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) was awarded the Victor Martyn-Lynch Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts, and was twice nominated for the Sobey Art Award. In her projects she has worked closely with various other practitioners including artists, dancers, and amateur naturalists.

Borsato was recently the Artist in Residence at the AGO, where she produced Your Temper, My Weather, a major durational performance involving the participation of one-hundred beekeepers. She also recently co-led the Art of Stillness Residency from artists from across disciplines at the Banff Centre for the Arts with Pico Iyer, Christopher House, and Richard Reed-Perry.

As Associate Professor at the University in Guelph, she teaches advanced courses that explore the relationships between art and everyday life­ including Food and Art, Special Topics on Walking, Live Art, and OUTDOOR SCHOOL.

Georgiana Uhlyarik is Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art in the Canadian and Indigenous Art Department at the Art Gallery of Ontario.