new employee

Oxygen Art Centre welcomes Greta Hamilton as our Literary Arts Coordinator!

Greta Hamilton is a writer raised as a settler on Liǥwildaʼx̱w Kwakwaka’wakw territory. They currently reside as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Greta holds a BA Honours from OCAD University in Visual and Critical Studies, that culminated in an auto-theoretical thesis considering the queerness of public bathing. They are a writer of poetry, essays and emails, and have written on topics including feminist photography, fermentation, saunas, cyborg futures, and dragons. They are an editor and co-founder of Silverfish Magazine in Tkaronto/Toronto. Their writing has appeared in C Magazine, Maclean’s Magazine, Grain Magazine, and in numerous exhibition statements and zines. To be in touch visit mcommunitynewsletter.substack.com or silverfish.digital or gretahamilton.fun

Greta will be working on the Author Reading Series, exhibition catalogues and didactics, as well as conducting research on a project to start an arts publication. Greta can be reached at literaryarts@oxygenartcentre.org.

The Literary Arts Coordinator position is generously supported by the British Columbia Arts Council Early Career Development program.

Welcome, Greta!