Spencer J. Harrison
Artist, Activist & Educator
Spencer J. Harrison’s Not a Freak Show: Growing Up Gay in Rural Ontario bears witness to the artist’s experience using the vernacular of the circus freak show to discuss both exclusion and inclusion.
Read MoreConfronting his own challenging adolescence through the media of paint and canvas just isn’t enough for Spencer J. Harrison, a sessional instructor in OCAD’s Faculty of Liberal Studies.
Read MoreSpencer J. Harrison is the first artist-in-residence
at George Vanier Secondary School. In fact, he’s
the first of his kind in Canada in that his role is
entirely extra-curricular.
In 1839 Paul Delaroche was the first to declare “Painting is dead.” Throughout the years many have reinforced or challenged this statement and yet we still paint...
Read MoreSpencer J. Harrison is a Toronto artist whose work is somewhere between that of a painter and that of an installation artist...
Read MoreREAD: A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education University of Toronto
Download PDFThe outside walls of the circus tent are painted with many images and words, none more appropriate to describe this man as “The Amazing Spencer J. Harrison ...
learn moreBefore the It Gets Better project, artist-in-residence Spencer J Harrison gave students at George Vanier Secondary School in Toronto...
learn moreSpencer J. Harrison and his gigantic circus tent are a first. For the past year, Harrison has been Georges Vanier Secondary School’s artist-in-residence...
learn moreSpencer J. Harrison and his gigantic circus tent are a first. For the past year, Harrison has been Georges Vanier Secondary School’s artist-in-residence...
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