Annie Canto is an artist and educator currently working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh people. In 2020, she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Master's in Fine Arts emphasizing research in socially engaged art, critical race theory, and engaged pedagogy. Working with performance, text, comics, and food she facilitates participation in communal spaces to acknowledge the complexities of the other and question the overarching systems that govern our relationships. In her current work, Annie is exploring collaborative writing and hosting practices as strategies for community organizing. She works in collective publishing models like the zine, and explores prose, poetry, and print as methods to call-in and call-out through self-publication. She is active in her creative community as a board member of the Vancouver Artist Labour Union Cooperative, a unionized workers co-operative with a mission to transform labour practices within the arts and cultural sector. She is an avid cook, reads comics with her cat, and is trying to figure out new ways to socially distant dance-party.
