Glenn Gear is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Montreal, Quebec, and originally from Newfoundland. Much of his work explores alternative forms of storytelling through research-based creation and personal/ tactile knowledge rooted in his Inuit heritage connected to Nunatsiavut. Primarily focused on animation and moving images, he also uses archives, photographs, drawings, traditional crafts, and objects in his practice. He is passionate about low-budget and experimental animation techniques and shares these through mentoring opportunities that have become an integral part of his practice. His work delves into the relationships between people, animals, and land, rethinking the spaces in which history, hope and Inuit knowledge may thrive.

In 2020, Gear will undertake a year-long joint residency between Concordia University and the University of Winnipeg. Glenn is the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: Artist-in-Residence hosted in collaboration with the aabijijijwan New Media Lab.

During his residency, Gear will create and exhibit multiple works on campus, host a series of workshop with Fine Arts students, and participate in a panel discussion during First Voices Week. The culmination of Gear’s residency will be the creation of a large-scale work for the inaugural exhibition of the Inuit Art Centre, INUA, set to open in the late Fall of 2020 as well as a soundscape project from archival materials mined at the Concordia University Library as well as the Visual Collections Repository.

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