Elvira Hufschmid

Elvira Hufschmid is a multimedia artist and cultural educator with German ancestry. As an intern at the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute, she investigated how metaphor may act as a common code between arts and science. In a previous project, titled 'Understanding the World through Aesthetics' (2021) at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, she hosted workshop conversations between artists and physicists about the possibilities of inspiration to cross disciplinary boundaries. Her current focus lies on Aesthetic Transformation processes as a participatory strategy to understand Canadian settler narratives towards colonial land enclosure. Beyond her interest in trans-disciplinarity, Elvira has an extensive place-based, conceptual drawing practice that emerges from a deeply felt (inter)-relationality to the other-than-human world. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, US, and taught as a Visiting Artist at Emily Carr University, and as a Guest Professor for ‘Artistic Transformation Processes’ at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany.