We spent years hanging out with artists living in boarding homes in Toronto’s Parkdale and Vaughan Road and Bathurst areas. We helped with peer led workshops, bought supplies, coffee and strawberries, made films and hosted events with our community partners. Together we searched to answer “How do we make things together when so much has fallen apart?”

More Than Anythng, 2023 Pond Small Fish continues its creative partnership with two supportive housing organizations, Cota and Habitat Services, and their Parkdale boarding home tenants who are consumers/ survivors of mental health services. Our distinctive approach reaches out to people who identify as artists yet, for a variety of complex reasons, create in isolated, unsupported circumstances. It nurtures the studio practices of these artists, creates peer co-led workshop videos, and virtual and physical exhibitions.

Outposts! 2022 is a social engagement initiative that created an online network of art and artists working on or making interventions in home, housing, homelessness, justice, and security. LEARN MORE

Comings and Goings 2021 co-designs a peer-led workshop, virtual exhibition; and studio visits with two supportive housing organizations and their boarding home tenants.

Home and House, 2018 research residency with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre to develop a creative partnership with boarding home tenants who are consumers/ survivors of mental health services.