Create and connect with community!
Join us this June for Queering Collage: Pride Edition! In two special workshops, led by Alyssa Vernon of Queer Collage Collective, explore topics related to Pride Month and queer solidarity through collage-based art activities.
On Sunday 8 June, participants are invited to make posters and buttons to bring to Pride! Learn about the history of Pride, explore collage techniques, and make friends to attend Pride events with!
On Sunday 22 June, take some time to reflect on Pride and queer solidarity through zine making! Artist, Géorgie Gagné will join Alyssa Vernon to lead a discussion on the relationship between zines, education, activism and the Queer community. Participants will have the opportunity to scan and print copies of their zine to share because Pride shouldn’t end with June!
All materials are provided, and no prior art experience is necessary! However, you are welcome to bring additional materials such as photos and newspaper clippings to make your collages more personal.
Headshot of Géorgie Gagné. Courtesy of artist.
Portrait of Alyssa Vernon at Queering Collage, 2025. Photo: Garrett Elliott.
Alyssa Vernon (she/her), born in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Jamaican & Guyanese collage artist currently based in Kingston, Ontario. Alyssa is a passionate Black and queer teacher and learner who incorporates collage into educational spaces to blend creativity into learning, while imagining futures where everyone is free.
Alyssa works through her lived experiences whilst collaging, pulling from themes of Black girlhood, (un)belonging, queer liberation, and community; whilst reflecting on Black histories to help imagine liberatory Black futures. Through her collages, Alyssa intends for Black people, particularly Black women, to feel like their stories and experiences matter and have value, to feel represented and seen, and to promote healing and love.
Alyssa is also the Co-Founder and lead programmer of Queer Collage Collective (QCC). QCC is a queer-led, anti-oppressive arts collective for healing and the strengthening of mental health. Follow and get in touch with QCC to see the work Alyssa is up to currently: @queercollagecollectives
Géorgie Gagné is a multi-award-winning, mixed heritage Cree and franco-québécoise artist, educator, facilitator, and advocate, dedicated to infusing intersectional approaches, Indigenous ways of knowing, intentionality and care within communities around Turtle Island. Her art practice focuses on physical and digital collage, beadwork, photography, and graphic design. Géorgie’s art aims to create audacious conversations on topics of 2Spirit identities, transness, interconnectivity, dignity, ruptures, and resilient love. Recently, she has participated in Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre’s Coalesce Residency, their annual juried exhibition Playful Encounters, as well as Union Gallery’s group exhibition Gentle Disruptions and Kingston School of Arts’ group exhibition Close to Home.