Community Projects
Winckler is an experienced arts facilitator and curriculum developer and her community practice is intimately linked with her personal work. Julia has facilitated community photography projects for the past 13 years in Canada, the UK and West Africa. Most recently she has been lead curriculum developer on several community projects in Hong Kong, China (2006 and in 2007 with Mimi Lok), working with the Robert H.N. Ho foundation which supports innovative and creative photography and art projects in Hong Kong and mainland China.
At the University, this work is reflected in the module ‘Community art for social change’, which Winckler teaches on the new MA Creative Media.
Together with Stephanie Conway, Winckler has written about their shared interest in, and personal experience of collaborative Phototherapy. Their essay ‘Acts of Embodiment: explorations in collaborative phototherapy”, was published in 2006 in the book Wild Fire: Art as Activism. This research interest is reflected in Winckler’s second year BA Photography project Returning the Gaze: Imaging Body, Identity, Community.
