Profile of Red Tree Collective
The Red Tree artist collective’s cross-cultural collaborative artistic practice and curatorial processes have been in place as mandate/mission since the collective’s inception in 1989. From that time, Tree has been developing an innovative model of collaboration between artists and communities that is central to each project, and cannot be separated from the completed work.
Current members are Nery Espinoza, Melanie Fernandez, Amelia Jimenez, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Sally Frater and Lynn Hutchinson. Collective members may invite guest artists, cultural workers or members of diverse communities to participate.
Based in Toronto, Red Tree works with local immigrant/refugee communities and international arts communities and in collaboration with the arts community as workshop facilitators, project initiators and collaborators.
Exhibit: From One Place to Another: Las dos realidades (The two realities)
2006-2007 – In partnership with the UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance Support Centre in Simcoe
Red Tree presented an exhibition of photo-based images produced in collaboration with Mexican and Trinidadian migrant agricultural workers, at the Norfolk Art Centre, 2007 and Mayworks 2008. Here is the link to get more information and to look at the pictures from this wonderful exhibit:
http://www.redtreecollective.ca/simcoe07.htm
Red Tree Artists: Ingrid Mayrhofer, Sally Frater, Neri Espinoza, Klyde Brooks
Participating Agricultural Workers: Marcelo Pérez, Fulgencio Mejía Ibarra, Rafael Larios Barbosa, Santiago Martínez Rodríguez, Martín Rodríguez Sierra, Jesús Tinajero Rodríguez, Ronald Audin, Sean Mapp, Nigel Espinosa, Christino Pierre, Clarence Pierra
The next phase of artist/worker collaboration will be interdisciplinary, involving sculptural media, poetry and performance.
Funded by OAC-AIC/W and UFCW Canada