Carly McAskill
2016-Present
Coordinator of the Feminist Media Studio (2022-2023)
Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Studies
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2014-2015
Bachelor of Education in Intermediate/Senior Division, Visual Art and Religion Teachable; iTeach Mobile Learning Program
Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
2011-2013
Master of Fine Arts
York University, Toronto, Ontario
2008-2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Drawing and Painting; Drawing and Painting Thesis Program
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Ontario
2004-2008
Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
McAskill is a communication and age studies scholar with a specialization in care work and respite literature, dementia and memory studies. She is a research-creation practitioner using drawing, painting, collage, storytelling and poetic prose as methodology.
In her Doctoral research-creation project, McAskill examines and interrogates the role of respite, as a part of care work, with people affected by dementia (caregivers and their loved ones with it). Primary caregivers who play dual roles (for example spouse and carer) to loved ones with dementia need support and community to sustain their well-being. This is where the role of the respite worker becomes invaluable to the caregiver: “relief” to have a break and space (like the French word “respire”) to “breathe”. Respite work is built on relationships, trust and care. It is an invaluable resource for caregivers to take a break from the demands of caregiving. This research-creation project on what it means to be a “respite worker” will have 3 outcomes: a collection of sketches; a set of prose-poems; and a final exhibition of these works with a manuscript that addresses the idea of “Respite.” These three aspects of my research-creation project will address the process of relationship-making through creative engagement to explore the subjective abilities of people affected by dementia, as well as that of care and respite work.
Solo Exhibitions:
2013
Motherline: A Self-Portrait
Gallery 1313, York University MFA Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
2011
Hello Beautiful; Pin Your Wings; Spectrum
West Town Bar and Grill, Hamilton, Ontario
Two Person Exhibitions:
2014-2016
Retrospective Painting Exhibition II
Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton, Ontario
2013-2014
Retrospective Painting Exhibition I
Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton, Ontario
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023
Community Art Exhibition – Wrapping Up Winter with Love: Caring For and Celebrating Curiosities with Love, Kindness and Gratitude
engAGE Living Lab Créatif
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2022
Around the Table: Cookbooks with Care
engAGE Living Lab Créatif
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
https://www.engagelivinglab.org/2022/09/14/summer-2022-art-exhibit/
Home-Made-Studio: A Window Into Our Creative Spaces Through Times of Isolation
engAGE Living Lab Créatif
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
https://www.engagelivinglab.org/2022/03/11/spring-2022-art-exhibit/
2021
Spring: New Beginnings 2021
engAGE Living Lab Créatif
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
https://www.artsteps.com/view/6092eeba7aebc7e3579c9745
2020
Between Darkness & Light: A Constellation of Art, Poetry, & Music
engAGE Living Lab Créatif
Concordia University, Montréal, Québe
https://prezi.com/view/tqpX8OgWT0fweWvsT2QG/
Selected Performance Art:
2020
Online Drama Teaching Assistant
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight
The Inclusion Players and Inclusion Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Love in the Time of Covid by Comedy Clownesque
The Opportunity Theatre Company, Montréal, Québec
Art Audio Guides:
2017:
Audio Guide for The Peony Knot by Jean-Michel Othoniel moderated by Dr. Kathleen Vaughan
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Quebec
http://re-imagine.ca/audio-guides-to-the-pavilion-for-peace/
Selected Design Projects:
2022
Embodied Books: Binding Together Illness, Art and Learning
Dr. Darian Goldin Stahl Research-Creation Project
https://www.embodiedbooks.com/anxiety
Selected Art Television Features and Interviews:
2022
engAGE Living Lab Créatif Short Documentary
engAGE Living Lab Créatif
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2017
OCAD University – Alumni of Influence 2017 Trailblazer Award, Carly McAskill
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Publications:
2018
Collage: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Women In My Motherline
Transformation, Transgressions, and Trust
Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought 2
University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria
https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugruniver/download/pdf/4589872?originalFilename=true
2017
Notes on the AgingGraz 2017 ENAS & NANAS Conference
Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Project
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
http://actproject.ca/notes-on-the-aginggraz2017-enas-nanas-conference/
2016
My Experience At GUSEGG 2016: Transformation, Transgression and Trust
Aging + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Project
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
http://actproject.ca/my-experience-at-gusegg-2016-transformation-transgression-and-trust/
2015
Gordon B. Perrier (1935-2014) A Retrospective Exhibition
Whitehalls Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
2013
Mothers, Education and Maternal Pedagogies
The Journal of Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Initiative
Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2013, Toronto, Ontario
2013
Motherline: A Self-Portrait
York University, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Artist Talks:
2022
Sketchy Methods I
Department of Communication Studies
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
Poetic Prose about Care
Art Hive Night, Hive Café
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2021
Alumni Panel: Graduate Exhibition 106
OCAD University Annual Graduate Exhibition
OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2020
Creativity, Care and Aging
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2017
Nuit Blanche Talk on The Peony Knot by Jean-Michel Othoniel
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec
2016
The History of Collage and My Collage Work
Glass Facts Antique Group, Hamilton, Ontario
Selected Conference Presentations:
2023
The Meaning of Respite
Creating Space Conference Canadian Association for Health Humanities
Québec City, Québec
2020
Ageing, Dementia and Experiential Writing
Centre for Women Ageing & Media (WAM)
Summer School 2020, Research Methods for Ageing Studies
Online Summer School, WAM
University of Gloucestershire, UK
2017
Alternative Approaches to Engaging People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Through Imagination, Communication and Methods of Care
Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium: Emerging Research of Later Life
Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) Project
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2017
Who Am I? Who Are You? Who Are We?
Cultural Narratives”, Processes and Strategies in Representations of Age and Aging held by the European Network in Aging Studies
Graz, Austria
2016
Mothers, Mothering, Motherhood in Today’s World: Experience, Identity, Agency, and Institution
Mothers, Mothering, Motherhood in Today’s World: Gala Conference Celebrating MIRCI’s 20th Anniversary
Toronto, Ontario
