Sylvia Curtis (now Curtis-Norcross) was born into the context of Montreal’s Canadian Centenary celebrations in 1967. The cultural tensions and expressions of that time imprinted on her an understanding of the arts as of fundamental value to our understanding of our experiences both individual and collective. This belief has informed her writing, art production, advocacy, curation, teaching, and activism for over 30 years.

Curtis-Norcross has an Honours B.A. in Visual Arts from Western University, where she was Director of the Visual Art Department’s student-run Hillary Gallery for one semester, and later was a founding member of the Visual Arts Western Alumni Association Art On.

Curtis-Norcross has written over 60 articles for Scene Magazine, catalogue essays for artists including Walter Redinger, David Urban, Bob Bozak, Jeff Willmore, Kirtley Jarvis, Aidan Urquhart, and reviews for Arts Atlantic and Border Crossings magazines.

Sylvia Curtis-Norcross has decades of work as an art educator with a wide range of communities most notably War Veterans at Parkwood Institute, New Immigrants at Museum London, preschool children and their Educators at London Bridge Childcare, and countless community drop in programs.

Projects of special note are working with artists Michelle Gay, Laurel Woodcock, Kelly Mark, and Raphael Lozano Hammer and others as General Manager of the LOLA (London Ontario Live Arts) festival in 2008, an exhibit documenting an intergenerational study of public art titled Artistic Voices: One-100, and a Cross Cultural Mural Painting tour across Argentina with the La Raza Group and the reciprocal Canada/Argentina Mural Project on the Citi Plaza tunnel.

Biography courtesy of Sylvia Curtis-Norcross