Maria Ezcurra

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Art Education



Teaching Experience

Selected workshops
Community and Participatory Projects
Research-Creation and Publications Maria Ezcurra is an artist, researcher and educator whose practice connects artistic creation, research and pedagogy through participatory projects, workshops and collaborations with universities, museums, schools and community organizations in Canada, Mexico and international contexts.

Working from a research-creation perspective, she understands art as a way of producing knowledge, generating dialogue and building community. Her doctoral thesis in Art Education at Concordia University was a collaborative project exploring how visual culture influences women’s identities through collective creative processes involving textiles, photography and performance.

Beyond academia, her workshops and participatory projects involve primary, secondary and university students, artists, immigrants and participants from diverse communities who engage with the social and cultural contexts in which her projects take place.

Her pedagogical approach is horizontal and collaborative, encouraging experimentation, dialogue and collective meaning-making. Activities can be conducted in Spanish, English or French.
Summer workshop with children
Presentation of drawings from the series Neotropical Migrants in the context of the exhibition femmes volcans forêts torrents
Museum of Contemporary Art
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024
Participatory workshop with newcomers
Creation of a collective installation using recycled nylon stockings in the context of the exhibition Crypsis
Musée régional de Rimouski
Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, 2025
Participatory workshop with newcomers
Creation of a collective installation using recycled nylon stockings in the context of the exhibition Crypsis
Musée régional de Rimouski
Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, 2025
Workshop presented as part of the project Butterfly Effect
In collaboration with Jaime Ruiz Martínez and with Mexican temporary workers in Canada
Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie Saint Paul
Baie Saint Paul, Quebec, Canada, 2025

Workshop with children creating bird silhouettes using recycled materials
Presentation of drawings from the series Neotropical Migrants in the context of the exhibition femmes volcans forêts torrents
Museum of Contemporary Art
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024
Workshop with children creating bird silhouettes using recycled materials
Presentation of drawings from the series Neotropical Migrants in the context of the exhibition femmes volcans forêts torrents
Museum of Contemporary Art
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024
Tree of Life workshop with elementary school students
ArtistsInspire educational program
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024
Tree of Life workshop with elementary school students
ArtistsInspire educational program
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2025
Papalotes (kites) workshop with students
School workshop program
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2025
Papalotes (kites) workshop with families
In the context of the artist residency at Adélard
Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada, 2023

Papalotes (kites) workshop with high school students
Community project Les Oiseaux de Pierrefonds
Gerry Robertson Community Centre
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024
Papalotes (kites) workshop with elders
Community project Les Oiseaux de Pierrefonds
Gerry Robertson Community Centre
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2024
Participatory project Fils communs / Tissus partagés
Piece created in collaboration with the members of Tricoter son tissu social
Maison de la culture Janine Sutto
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2022
Art Hive
Participatory activity organized by Intervals Collective
La Centrale galerie Powerhouse
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mask workshop using recycled materials
In the context of a solo exhibition
Espacio México, Consulate of Mexico
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mask workshop with elementary school students
Maison de la culture Notre Dame de Grâce
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2021
Mask workshop with elementary school students
Maison de la culture Notre Dame de Grâce
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2021
Luchador mask workshop using recycled stockings
Metek space
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020
Papel picado workshop with elementary school students
In collaboration with Bienvenue à NDG
Saint Catherine de Sienne School
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2021
Papel picado workshop presented as part of the participatory project Intermissions: Installations in the Park
Project organized by Intervals Collective
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020
Papel picado workshop presented as part of the participatory project Intermissions: Installations in the Park
Project organized by Intervals Collective
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020
Papel picado workshop presented as part of the participatory project Intermissions: Installations in the Park
Project organized by Intervals Collective
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2020
Bird mobile workshop with elementary school students
Maison de la culture Notre Dame de Grâce
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2021
Bird mobile workshop with elementary school students
Maison de la culture Notre Dame de Grâce
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2021
Online insect drawing session during the pandemic
Virtual workshop open to the public
2020
Participatory project Red Roots Green Lands
DHC Art Foundation
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2015
Participatory project Red Roots Green Lands
DHC Art Foundation
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2016
Art class in the Faculty of Education
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2019
Pedagogical activity with university students in the context of the exhibition Tensión
La Centrale galerie Powerhouse
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2019
Participatory activity with children in the context of the Art Hive project
In collaboration with Participatory Cultures Lab and Bienvenue à NDG
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2019
Participatory installation Social Web
NDG Art Walk
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2011
Participatory installation with textiles created from participants’ clothing
Museum of Fine Arts
Caracas, Venezuela, 2007
Participatory photography project Photovoice
McGill Art Hive
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2018
General view of the Art Hive project
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2017

Participatory installation Pinned Down (or How to Find a Needle in a Haystack)
Articule
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2015


Teaching Experience          
 2021-present
Professor, Art Education
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada

 2018-present Professor, Faculty of Education
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

2005-2010 Professor, Faculty of Arts
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Cuernavaca, Mexico

Additional teaching experience includes courses and seminars at
CENTRO diseño | cine | televisión
ITESM
Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda
 IndexSelected Workshops2025 Art workshops in schools, community organizations and Maisons de la culture
Montreal, Canada

2024 Workshops related to the Olmecs exhibition
Pointe à Callière Museum, Montreal

Zine Making Workshop
Maison de la culture NDG, Montreal

Summer workshops
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal

Les Oiseaux de Pierrefonds
Centre communautaire Gerry Robertson, Montreal

2023 Beyond the Mask
MOMENTA Creative
McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal

The Other Face of the Mask
DARE DARE, Montreal

2022  Mask Workshop
Art Souterrain, Montreal

Papalotes Workshop
Adélard, Frelighsburg

2021 Papel picado workshop
Cuisine ta ville, Montreal

Zines: Micro aggressions
Casa de Cultura Cancún / Fundación AVCINE, Mexico (online)

Zines: Micro aggressions
UAEMex, Mexico (online)
 IndexCommunity and Participatory Projects
2024 
Tricoter ses racines / Knitting your roots
Dorval Library

Les Oiseaux de Pierrefonds
Centre communautaire Gerry Robertson, Montreal

Around the Table (with Intervals Collective)
La Centrale galerie Powerhouse, Montreal

2023 Points de rencontres
Adélard, Frelighsburg

2022 Fils communs / Tissus partagés
Maison de la culture Janine Sutto, Montreal

En passant
Art Souterrain, Montreal

2020 Nouveaux nids
Maison de la culture Notre Dame de Grâce, Montreal

Intermissions: Social Installation in the Park
con Intervals Collective, Montreal
 IndexResearch-Creation adn Publications2024
Jiménez, T. From personal experiences to collaborative art: Interview with María Ezcurra.
Voices of Mexico, 121, 80–85

2022 Carton de Grammont, N. & Ezcurra, M. Embroidering for change: Latin-American and
Latino-Canadian Activist Needlework

In Craft and Heritage: Intersections in Critical Studies and Practice
Bloomsbury Visual Arts

2020
Garcia, C. K., Carter, M. R., Nyariro, M., Ezcurra, M., Beavis, L., Mitchell, C. (2020)
There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in

2019Ezcurra, M. The McGill Art Hive Initiative

2018 Ezcurra, M. Doing Research-Creation through a Multi-Fabric Wedding Dress

2017 Mitchell, C. & Ezcurra, M. Picturing Resistance

2016 Ezcurra Lucotti, M. The Threads, Trends and Threats of the Wedding Dress
Tesis doctoral, Universidad Concordia
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