Jess Mace
@jessmace.bsky.social
Art | Architecture | Heritage |
Asst. Prof. Teaching Stream, Art History, University of Toronto | Editor, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada | Chercheur associé, CRC en patrimoine urbain, UQAM (she/her)
Asst. Prof. Teaching Stream, Art History, University of Toronto | Editor, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada | Chercheur associé, CRC en patrimoine urbain, UQAM (she/her)
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Early June I'm giving 3 public talks examining history & stunning interiors of Toronto's former Eaton's College St Store, St Anne's Anglican Church (2024 fire destroyed), & Old City Hall. Deets & link to buy tickets (in-person, live Zoom, or get recordings): app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Early June I'm giving 3 public talks examining history & stunning interiors of Toronto's former Eaton's College St Store, St Anne's Anglican Church (2024 fire destroyed), & Old City Hall. Deets & link to buy tickets (in-person, live Zoom, or get recordings): app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...
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New book! 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 by NACDI co-founder @smithsarah.bsky.social is now out with @ubcpress.bsky.social.
The book examines how visual art shaped North American relationships during the rise of free trade.
www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art
The book examines how visual art shaped North American relationships during the rise of free trade.
www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art
May 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
New book! 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 by NACDI co-founder @smithsarah.bsky.social is now out with @ubcpress.bsky.social.
The book examines how visual art shaped North American relationships during the rise of free trade.
www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art
The book examines how visual art shaped North American relationships during the rise of free trade.
www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art
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🌸 It’s our favourite time of the year! 🌸
We have over 70 Japanese cherry trees - also known as sakura trees - blooming on the grounds of Robarts Library for you to enjoy. With rain forecasted for tomorrow, today may be the best day to vist. 🌺
✨ Please remember to treat the trees with respect. 🙏🌳
We have over 70 Japanese cherry trees - also known as sakura trees - blooming on the grounds of Robarts Library for you to enjoy. With rain forecasted for tomorrow, today may be the best day to vist. 🌺
✨ Please remember to treat the trees with respect. 🙏🌳
April 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🌸 It’s our favourite time of the year! 🌸
We have over 70 Japanese cherry trees - also known as sakura trees - blooming on the grounds of Robarts Library for you to enjoy. With rain forecasted for tomorrow, today may be the best day to vist. 🌺
✨ Please remember to treat the trees with respect. 🙏🌳
We have over 70 Japanese cherry trees - also known as sakura trees - blooming on the grounds of Robarts Library for you to enjoy. With rain forecasted for tomorrow, today may be the best day to vist. 🌺
✨ Please remember to treat the trees with respect. 🙏🌳
Extra extra! 🗞️
Check out the article from @uoftartsci.bsky.social on my 4th-yr students!
Working with the Ontario Heritage Trust, students conducted original research & proposed new uses for Ontario's historic buildings 🍁👏
Read on below!
@uoft.bsky.social
www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/preserv...
Check out the article from @uoftartsci.bsky.social on my 4th-yr students!
Working with the Ontario Heritage Trust, students conducted original research & proposed new uses for Ontario's historic buildings 🍁👏
Read on below!
@uoft.bsky.social
www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/preserv...
Preserving the past, rethinking the future: A&S students reimagine Ontario’s historic buildings
www.artsci.utoronto.ca
April 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Extra extra! 🗞️
Check out the article from @uoftartsci.bsky.social on my 4th-yr students!
Working with the Ontario Heritage Trust, students conducted original research & proposed new uses for Ontario's historic buildings 🍁👏
Read on below!
@uoft.bsky.social
www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/preserv...
Check out the article from @uoftartsci.bsky.social on my 4th-yr students!
Working with the Ontario Heritage Trust, students conducted original research & proposed new uses for Ontario's historic buildings 🍁👏
Read on below!
@uoft.bsky.social
www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/preserv...
A scene from last night's "A Celebration of Women in the Art World" at Cowley Abbott, with panelists Lydia Abbott, Shelli Cassidy-McIntosh (Olga Korper Gallery), Kathryn Minard (Art Advisory), & Joyce Zemans (York University).
Went with some of my undergrad interns—a fabulous experience for all! ☺️
Went with some of my undergrad interns—a fabulous experience for all! ☺️
March 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A scene from last night's "A Celebration of Women in the Art World" at Cowley Abbott, with panelists Lydia Abbott, Shelli Cassidy-McIntosh (Olga Korper Gallery), Kathryn Minard (Art Advisory), & Joyce Zemans (York University).
Went with some of my undergrad interns—a fabulous experience for all! ☺️
Went with some of my undergrad interns—a fabulous experience for all! ☺️
Visiting the @uoft.bsky.social Art Museum vault with students to examine & discuss historic Canadian paintings ✨🎨
March 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Visiting the @uoft.bsky.social Art Museum vault with students to examine & discuss historic Canadian paintings ✨🎨
Timeline cleanse c/o my class visit to @torontoarchives.bsky.social 🥰
Behind-the-scenes access to the vast resource centre.
Behind-the-scenes access to the vast resource centre.
February 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Timeline cleanse c/o my class visit to @torontoarchives.bsky.social 🥰
Behind-the-scenes access to the vast resource centre.
Behind-the-scenes access to the vast resource centre.
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Canadian Studies Network Prizes
*Best Undergrad Essay/Thesis
*Best MA (or Equivalent) Thesis or MRP
*Best PhD Dissertation
*Best Edited Collection
*Best Book
csn-rec.ca/prizes-award...
@wlupress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social
*Best Undergrad Essay/Thesis
*Best MA (or Equivalent) Thesis or MRP
*Best PhD Dissertation
*Best Edited Collection
*Best Book
csn-rec.ca/prizes-award...
@wlupress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Canadian Studies Network Prizes
*Best Undergrad Essay/Thesis
*Best MA (or Equivalent) Thesis or MRP
*Best PhD Dissertation
*Best Edited Collection
*Best Book
csn-rec.ca/prizes-award...
@wlupress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social
*Best Undergrad Essay/Thesis
*Best MA (or Equivalent) Thesis or MRP
*Best PhD Dissertation
*Best Edited Collection
*Best Book
csn-rec.ca/prizes-award...
@wlupress.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social
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Calling all architectural history & heritage folks in Canada! 📣
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
This Year's Conference - Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
canada-architecture.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Calling all architectural history & heritage folks in Canada! 📣
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
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Job – Assistant Professor in Rural North American History – University of Guelph - @uguelphhist.bsky.social
Assessment of applications will begin on February 24, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
niche-canada.org/2025/01/27/j...
#cdnhist #ruralhistory #envhist
Assessment of applications will begin on February 24, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
niche-canada.org/2025/01/27/j...
#cdnhist #ruralhistory #envhist
Job - Assistant Professor in Rural North American History - University of Guelph
The History Department at the University of Guelph invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Rural North American History. The appointment will commence on J...
niche-canada.org
January 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Job – Assistant Professor in Rural North American History – University of Guelph - @uguelphhist.bsky.social
Assessment of applications will begin on February 24, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
niche-canada.org/2025/01/27/j...
#cdnhist #ruralhistory #envhist
Assessment of applications will begin on February 24, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
niche-canada.org/2025/01/27/j...
#cdnhist #ruralhistory #envhist
Calling all architectural history & heritage folks in Canada! 📣
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
This Year's Conference - Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
canada-architecture.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Calling all architectural history & heritage folks in Canada! 📣
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
Now accepting abstracts for my session "Critical heritage perspectives & the built environment: Toward inclusion, identity, & plural narratives" for the 2025 conference of the SSAC.
Closes Jan 31
canada-architecture.org/this-years-c...
Turtle sculpture & reflecting pool by Solomon King in the newly opened Spirit Garden, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto.
It faces north toward City Hall & a list of names of the 18 residential schools that operated across Ontario.
Poignant stop on a heritage walk w/ my @uoft.bsky.social students.
It faces north toward City Hall & a list of names of the 18 residential schools that operated across Ontario.
Poignant stop on a heritage walk w/ my @uoft.bsky.social students.
November 26, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Turtle sculpture & reflecting pool by Solomon King in the newly opened Spirit Garden, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto.
It faces north toward City Hall & a list of names of the 18 residential schools that operated across Ontario.
Poignant stop on a heritage walk w/ my @uoft.bsky.social students.
It faces north toward City Hall & a list of names of the 18 residential schools that operated across Ontario.
Poignant stop on a heritage walk w/ my @uoft.bsky.social students.
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Will you be in Toronto on January 21? Do you like art? Do you like money? Then come to this public lecture I'll be giving at the University of Toronto!
arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...
arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...
November 26, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Will you be in Toronto on January 21? Do you like art? Do you like money? Then come to this public lecture I'll be giving at the University of Toronto!
arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...
arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...
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Calling all artists!
The Sobey Art Foundation is working with artists to explore new structures of support. A Future for Artists survey aims to gain a better understanding of the working conditions and needs of professional artists.
Take the survey today: www.afutureforartists.ca?fbclid=IwZXh...
The Sobey Art Foundation is working with artists to explore new structures of support. A Future for Artists survey aims to gain a better understanding of the working conditions and needs of professional artists.
Take the survey today: www.afutureforartists.ca?fbclid=IwZXh...
A Future for Artists
Learn about the future of art in Canada and share your thoughts by participating in our survey.
www.afutureforartists.ca
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Calling all artists!
The Sobey Art Foundation is working with artists to explore new structures of support. A Future for Artists survey aims to gain a better understanding of the working conditions and needs of professional artists.
Take the survey today: www.afutureforartists.ca?fbclid=IwZXh...
The Sobey Art Foundation is working with artists to explore new structures of support. A Future for Artists survey aims to gain a better understanding of the working conditions and needs of professional artists.
Take the survey today: www.afutureforartists.ca?fbclid=IwZXh...
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I wrote an essay for the Teaching Arctic Environments project organized by @issygapp.bsky.social thanks for the opportunity to think with this map. Check it out if you want to read my attempt at critical cartography 🤓
www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/ma...
www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/ma...
Mapping Alaska Native Land and Language — Teaching Arctic Environments
www.teachingarcticenvironments.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
I wrote an essay for the Teaching Arctic Environments project organized by @issygapp.bsky.social thanks for the opportunity to think with this map. Check it out if you want to read my attempt at critical cartography 🤓
www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/ma...
www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/ma...
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Imagine … taking a train from Brantford to Goderich … or from Glencoe to Strathroy … or from Palmerston to Elora … or, well, to just about anywhere (our rail network in 1901).
November 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Imagine … taking a train from Brantford to Goderich … or from Glencoe to Strathroy … or from Palmerston to Elora … or, well, to just about anywhere (our rail network in 1901).
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I didn't have much time for writing over the last five years, but one piece I did finish, just published in print (and Open Access), is this article with Leah Fusco on "the emergence of an extractive frontier in Arctic Canada, 1948-1958": doi.org/10.1111/cag....
The path to Panarctic: The emergence of an extractive frontier in Arctic Canada, 1948–1958
The intensive efforts of the Geological Survey of Canada in the middle of the 20th century solidified the southern understanding of the Arctic archipelago as a potential extractive frontier. This m...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:03 PM
I didn't have much time for writing over the last five years, but one piece I did finish, just published in print (and Open Access), is this article with Leah Fusco on "the emergence of an extractive frontier in Arctic Canada, 1948-1958": doi.org/10.1111/cag....
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any worthwhile books or articles about children and architecture in history, especially domestic architecture?
November 25, 2024 at 2:28 PM
any worthwhile books or articles about children and architecture in history, especially domestic architecture?
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Just out! Special issue on queer and queering heritage (with a fantastic manifesto to boot)!
I have a little something in there, too, thinking about what it means to think about “queer” as an adjective or a verb in heritage practice australia.icomos.org/publications...
I have a little something in there, too, thinking about what it means to think about “queer” as an adjective or a verb in heritage practice australia.icomos.org/publications...
Historic Environment Vol 35 number 1 2023 (2024) Queer Heritage Guest Editors: Steve Brown, Celmara Pocock & Robert Mason | Australia ICOMOS
Front Page & Contents Preface Guest Editors and Contributors Towards a queer heritage: Challenges and opportunities Celmara Pocock, Steve Brown and Robert Mason Queering heritage: The contribution of ...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Just out! Special issue on queer and queering heritage (with a fantastic manifesto to boot)!
I have a little something in there, too, thinking about what it means to think about “queer” as an adjective or a verb in heritage practice australia.icomos.org/publications...
I have a little something in there, too, thinking about what it means to think about “queer” as an adjective or a verb in heritage practice australia.icomos.org/publications...
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Part 2 of my podcast with Alex Bulmer is now live!
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips.
#Architecture
#Accessibility
#Blindness
carleton.ca/aah/2024/hta...?
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips.
#Architecture
#Accessibility
#Blindness
carleton.ca/aah/2024/hta...?
HTA Podcast: Sensing Architecture, Part 2 - Art and Architectural History
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? In Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Bulmer, we visit St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in downtown
carleton.ca
November 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Part 2 of my podcast with Alex Bulmer is now live!
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips.
#Architecture
#Accessibility
#Blindness
carleton.ca/aah/2024/hta...?
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips.
#Architecture
#Accessibility
#Blindness
carleton.ca/aah/2024/hta...?
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How does extraction shape contemporary Canadian architecture? Join BE members & co-editors Christopher Alton, @emeliedt.bsky.social and Zannah Matson today to explore this question and celebrate the launch of their special issue "Architecture and Extraction" for SSAC Journal! bit.ly/jssaclaunch
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
How does extraction shape contemporary Canadian architecture? Join BE members & co-editors Christopher Alton, @emeliedt.bsky.social and Zannah Matson today to explore this question and celebrate the launch of their special issue "Architecture and Extraction" for SSAC Journal! bit.ly/jssaclaunch
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Our DEPOT research project has a timely online round-table on the politics of race and caste in economically left behind areas. November 20 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am (Eastern Time).
www.eventbrite.ca/e/depot-roun...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/depot-roun...
November 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Our DEPOT research project has a timely online round-table on the politics of race and caste in economically left behind areas. November 20 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am (Eastern Time).
www.eventbrite.ca/e/depot-roun...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/depot-roun...
Since I'm new here and some of you are new followers (hi!)—you might not know that I teach an Architecture of Toronto course @ UofT.
This week, we went on a skyscrapers walk w/ @joelleondanis.bsky.social of the Toronto Society of Architects, ending at the CIBC Square elevated park. What a view! 😍
This week, we went on a skyscrapers walk w/ @joelleondanis.bsky.social of the Toronto Society of Architects, ending at the CIBC Square elevated park. What a view! 😍
November 14, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Since I'm new here and some of you are new followers (hi!)—you might not know that I teach an Architecture of Toronto course @ UofT.
This week, we went on a skyscrapers walk w/ @joelleondanis.bsky.social of the Toronto Society of Architects, ending at the CIBC Square elevated park. What a view! 😍
This week, we went on a skyscrapers walk w/ @joelleondanis.bsky.social of the Toronto Society of Architects, ending at the CIBC Square elevated park. What a view! 😍
Join us Mon, Nov 18 for the launch of a special issue of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada on Architecture & Extraction!
Hear the authors & guest eds discuss the role of extraction in Canada's architectural history.
Details ➡️
canada-architecture.org/jssac-archit...
Hear the authors & guest eds discuss the role of extraction in Canada's architectural history.
Details ➡️
canada-architecture.org/jssac-archit...
November 12, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Join us Mon, Nov 18 for the launch of a special issue of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada on Architecture & Extraction!
Hear the authors & guest eds discuss the role of extraction in Canada's architectural history.
Details ➡️
canada-architecture.org/jssac-archit...
Hear the authors & guest eds discuss the role of extraction in Canada's architectural history.
Details ➡️
canada-architecture.org/jssac-archit...