Jennifer Rudder

Jennifer Rudder has worked in the visual arts in Canada for thirty-five years as a writer, curator, administrator, and educator, and her essays and articles have been published in a wide variety of Canadian books, catalogues, anthologies, and periodicals. Rudder began her career in contemporary visual art as director of YYZ Artists’ Outlet, an artist-run centre in Toronto. In the '90s, she was editor of MIX Magazine and executive director of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Further, in the 2000s, she was executive director and curator of Gallery Stratford, a public gallery in Ontario.

Rudder received her master's in visual studies (curatorial) at the University of Toronto in 2010. During this time, she also taught at the OCAD University’s criticism and curatorial practice department for eight years. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to the appreciation, welfare, and advancement of Canadian visual artists as well as a champion of progressive art practices dealing with race, indigeneity, feminism, queer identity, and sexuality. Much of Rudder’s curatorial work is a critical examination of the historical misapplication of scientific theories and technologies that result in harmful effects on vulnerable segments of society.

Selected published work

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke, and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen & Michelle Wilson.

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the Mentorship program established by the Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and faculty of Arts & Humanities at Western University.

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located in London, Ontario, Canada on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.