Mid-Town Social – Explore Art with Jano
November 12^th from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at AST located at 20 Eglinton Ave West, 16^th floor.

 Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities. This session Jano Cortijo, an art educator will focus on Nature, specifically on art that features fruits. The habitual protagonists of still lifes, fruits have been the subject of many artworks because they carry a wide array of symbolism and significance.

Join us with your curiosity and come ready to share thoughts and ideas. We invite you to observe and discuss how the two-dimensional interpretation of a fruit transcends their quotidian nature.

Jano Cortijo is an arts educator whose work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds in museums, classrooms, community centres, and online. Straying far from the canon to elevate artists and works that have been excluded or erased from mainstream conversations, Cortijo encourages critical discussion while connecting the participants’ individual histories and stories with the art and art makers.