Reclaimed Arts is a social art incubator that houses a series of projects established by Suma (Susana Meza) during her 2021-2022 cohort of Yale University’s LET(s)Lead fellowship. Suma would like to thank the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, CAMH Education, The Rotman Family Foundation, Suma’s LET(s)Lead project mentor, Tijana Spasić (interim artistic director of Arts4All), and creative consultant Benjamin Hackman for their inspiration and guidance.
about Suma
Suma (Susana Meza) (she/they) is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist and poet based in Toronto who creates hand-crafted sculptures, textiles, drawings, and paintings that help the artist cope with the world around and inside of them. Susana’s work is infused with intentional happiness and it responds to their recovery journey and lived experience of addiction, mental health, mourning, migration, multicultural identity, and their ever-constant exploration of the inner light. Susana enjoys working with mediums that are sensorial and keep their hands occupied and aims to explore the intersections of our tangible and virtual worlds while trying to spread some happiness. Susana works on their art practice on a daily basis and also serves as an arts facilitator, certified peer-support worker, and is a Newcomer Artist Ambassador for MABELLEarts, secretary of the board of directors of the North York Women Centre, a member of Workman Arts’ Member Advisory Committee and an XOXO Downsview Jury Member
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