Gigi Grant

Gigi Grant is an artist, project leader, and community organizer activating beauty and creation to bring forward social change.

About

Major Projects:

163 Queen East Health Justice Hub
Leading SPRE Development and Community Hub for HIV+ and Displaced Peoples

Unity Kitchen Toronto
Developing a Street Level Resource Center for Houseless Peoples in Downtown Toronto

Church of the Holy Trinity
Renewing the identity and legacy of a 180 year old church dedicated to social justice

Prisoners’ Justice and Support
Building justice, compassion and alternatives to incarceration through community development and arts creation.

Toronto Homeless Memorial
Leading Toronto’s monthly community ritual and advocacy pillar remembering the lives of houseless peoples.

Interventions, installations and Publications:

Festival of Shelter
Unity Recycled Textile Printing
Voices of Women For Peace Service
Disappearing Space Poster
Jane Doe Wheatpaste
Memorial Tiles
175 Anniversary Book and Collages
Service Bulletins
Encampment Wreath
Ascension Poem and Photos
An Anarchist Response to HIV/HCV Design
HIV Criminalization Advocacy

Artworks








Festival of Shelter

Festival of Shelter was an outdoor art exhibition launched by The Loon Gallery and Church of the Holy Trinity. Featuring the artists Alexander Hardashnakov, Oliver Roberts and others, the works were mounted on the exterior walls of Church of the Holy Trinity’s downtown campus. Small encampments that developed during the beginning of COVID provoked a public backlash against both homelessness in Toronto, and a fear of street-involved peoples, now a ubiquitus presence while all else was closed. In juxtapozition to a boarded up Eaton’s Center, Festival of Shelter provoked the question of who is deserving of space, presence and safety in our society. 


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