{"id":2406,"date":"2020-06-28T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cohds.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:01:21","slug":"elsy-zavarce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/elsy-zavarce\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsy Zavarce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Affili\u00e9e chercheuse<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0\">\n.flex_column.av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegkhpa-dfdb4f6930de453c09347160f580a6ce\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-dfdb4f6930de453c09347160f580a6ce img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-dfdb4f6930de453c09347160f580a6ce .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kaegkhpa-dfdb4f6930de453c09347160f580a6ce av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-13751 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-13751 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650-294x300.jpg\" alt='' title='20210701_193650'  height=\"300\" width=\"294\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650-1008x1030.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650-690x705.jpg 690w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20210701_193650.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56\">\n.flex_column.av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-a4bd548fb113ac38bd4baec72f7092ab '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Elsy Zavarce is a multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, interdisciplinary researcher, and Professor Emerita at the University of Zulia. Born in Canada and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she is currently based in Montreal. She completed her PhD in Art Education at Concordia University in June 2025, where her research focused on socially engaged art, curatorial practice, and art-based research as frameworks for fostering community, belonging, and social transformation.<\/p>\n<p>She is the founder and coordinator of Escolarte, an educational and curatorial program for high school students in Maracaibo that approaches art as a situated and transformative practice. Her work explores the roles of artists, educators, and curators in building communities of practice and co-creating spaces that nurture imagination, resilience, and collective agency.<\/p>\n<p>During her doctoral studies, she received several recognitions, including a SSHRC award (2023), a Research-Creation Grant from COHDS (2023), Concordia Conference and Exposition Awards (2023, 2024), the Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Internship Award (2022), the Concordia Merit Scholarship (2019\u20132020), and the Concordia Merit Scholarship \u2013 Faculty of Fine Arts (2021\u20132022).<\/p>\n<p>As an artist, Zavarce works across installation, objects, and participatory practices. Her work has been exhibited in Venezuela, Canada, and the United States, and is included in public and private collections, including the Museum of the Americas. Selected exhibitions include recent group exhibitions, such as Relational Discourses II and Weaving Histories | Tejiendo Historias (Miami, 2025), A.llegadxs (FOFA Gallery, 2023) and Creadoras (National Gallery of Venezuela, 2023). Her artist-curatorial projects include Ene Incident (1999\u20132014), Body in Question (MACZUL, 2018), and Confined Bodies (MACZUL, 2020). Her work has received distinctions such as Special Mention at the Aragua Art Salon (2012) and First Prize in three-dimensional work at the Caribbean Art Salon (2000).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,90,87,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affilie-e-s","category-affilie-e-s-chercheur-euse-s","category-affilie-e-s-etudiant-e-s","category-communaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26435,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/26435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}