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by Yvonne ChewI build, design and set up websites and other digital communications. I also design and produce for print.
A dance artist for the past 21 years, I often work with other artists and arts organizations, but my design experience reaches beyond these communities.
Based on MST territories (Vancouver, BC), I’ve been a freelance web and graphic designer since 2010. I specialize in coding and designing websites in French and English, as well as virtual exhibitions, web-based artworks and digital archives. In response to COVID shutdowns, I've helped dozens of artists/organizations from across the country move their activities online. I also produce print objects like exhibition catalogues and large format posters: full client list
My approach is small file, low carbon, open source and DIY. I hand-code websites instead of relying on cookie-cutter platforms or themes. I’m also versed in photo, video and audio editing; content writing; email newsletters and social media marketing. I promote a thoughtful and personal web presence, with the aim of disseminating work that’s bespoke and relevant. I also offer training and support to artists/staff, so that multiple voices are empowered. I've presented workshops and seminars in DIY web design for New Works, Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser University's BFA, MA, MFA and PhD students, as well as mentored artists erψn temp3st and Victor Vân Tran, among others.
Combining my experiences in dance and design, I've created multiple live online performances, as well as video artworks presented in galleries and film festivals internationally. I'm co-producer/co-curator of the interplay_ festival of live online performance. I've also presented lectures and case studies around digital performance for Emily Carr University, Digital Dramaturgy Initiative,
Chimerik 似不像 and the Manitoba Association of Dance Educators.See selected projects and get in touch.
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2024–present, website design + build, in French and English, for Le Radeau, a contemporary dance creation and production company based in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal) co-directed by Ariane Boulet, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus and Nate Yaffe
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2024–present, website design + build ¶ Aug 2024, I was appointed Co-Director of the Vancouver International Dance Festival ¶ as well as festival planning and society operations, I'm taking the lead on digital communications, including the website which has two states: a more performative dark mode style when it's festival time; and a lighter more informational style for our quiet season
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2023–present, website design, build + webmaster for performing arts organization Odd Meridian, artistic director Ziyian Kwan, who creates, disseminates and shares via their cultural space Morrow, as well as programs like residences and ahmm: Asian Heritage Month at Morrow
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2023–present, website design, build + webmaster for dance artist, theatre artist, creative consultant, cultural programmer, and educator Tasha Faye Evans ¶ "There is not a word in Coast Salish culture for art. Our art is functional. Our dances, prayers. Our songs, blessings."
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2021–present, website design, build + webmaster for Lekwungen territory/Victoria-based artist Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, whose photography, performance, erotica and theory are steeped in the "intrinsic wisdom of our earth bodies"
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2020–present, website design, build + webmaster for multidisciplinary artist Roxanne Nesbitt, whose projects explore the spaces between sound, performance and design
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2019–present, website set up, styling + webmaster (Cargo) for Nelson-based movement, sound and video artist prOphecy sun, including a mini-site for her PhD fellowship project Intertidal
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2019–present, website design, build, webmaster + collaborator w/ contemporary Métis dance artist Jeanette Kotowich, including a sister site for multidisciplinary Métis performance collective Acuhko Simowuk and Valley Journal to document land-based research J + I conducted in the
Kah-tep-was valley2017–present, graphic design of business cards, postcards, web graphics and press kits
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2016–present, festival producer + curator; website design, build + webmaster; graphic design for web for interplay_, festival of live online performance ¶ in addition to maintaining a website and promoting the artists for each edition, my responsibilities include grant writing, calls to artists, paperless promo, online box office, webinar support + video editing
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2024, mentor to SFU's CA 425 students around DIY promo, from writing artist statements to designing posters ¶ supervisor Lisa Gelley
2023, presenter + workshop facilitator for SFU-SCA's MA, MFA and PhD students around web design, DIY programming and startegies for digitally exhibiting artwork ¶ supervisor Peter Dickinson
2022–23, mentor to SFU-SCA's Dance–Special Projects undergrads in the creation of their first artist websites, including teaching basic web design in platforms like Cargo ¶ supervisors Rob Kitsos and NiNi Dongnier
2022, consultant to SFU-SCA's Communications Director Brady Cranfield
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2020–24, website design, build + webmaster for dance company and presenters plastic orchid factory, including websites for their 2023-2024, 2022-2023, 2021-2022 and 2020-2021 seasons ¶ I also maintained a more static info site, including a digital archive of past projects + presentations
2019–2023, graphic design for web + print, including titles for livestream productions, projected show programs, ads, posters + postcards
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2023, website design + build for Active/Passive Performance Society based in Shxixnetun (Galiano Island, BC) who present an outdoor ambient music festival, biosonification events and other transdisciplinary projects ¶ the site incorporates graphics by Max Ammo and has four styles that shift with A/PPS' ongoing spring, summer, fall and winter events, plus a more static info section with a multimedia archive of past events ¶ the project culminated in training the directors to self-manage the site
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2020–23, website design, build + webmaster; and graphic design for print + web, in English and French, for this international gathering around visual-arts-based research ¶ the 2020 website was the venue for the 53-year-old conference’s inaugural online event that presented hundreds of academic texts and Zoom panels ¶ I created the site for their second online edition in 2021, the hybrid edition in 2022 and the in-person event in 2023 ¶ I also designed print ads, large format posters and web graphics; and managed other digital communications
"Web designer Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject deserves a medal for the beautiful UAAC conference website that has become both the program and venue for this year’s proceedings. Thank you Deanna for your nimble and sure-footed professionalism, and for the care you took in making the website not only functional but also a joy to experience." 2020 co-organzier Erin Silver
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2023, presenter + workshop facilitator of Small File DIY Web, a hands-on public workshop around creating 50KB HTML/CSS websites, including the presentation of useful, accessible strategies to hack and reduce websites, while still staying creative, design-forward, highly responsive, and especially less environmentally burdensome; hosted by Small File Media Festival
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2012–22, Communications Director for the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists/West Chapter, a labour alliance supporting 200+ dance artist members via subsidies, resources, advocacy and outreach
During my decade with the organization, I devised new programs + initiatives, including:
- Leading a name change from CADA/BC to CADA/West, to recognize a growing membership
- Communications development to reach more marginalized dance artists
- Creating the Designers for Dance Database to connect dance artists with design collaborators
- Dance Hole w/ Alexa Mardon, a writing + website project to broaden the scope of what we talk about as dance artists
- Emergency Measures + Funds w/ Jessica Wadsworth, instituted April 2020 to help members cope with income loss due to pandemic shutdowns
- Year-long mentorship of Victor Tran to succeed in the role
Other responsibilities:
- Graphic design for print + web: logo, postcards, letterhead, membership cards, ads, graphics
- Monthly HTML newsletter
- Writing 200+ resource posts
- Member intake, communications + profiles
- Social media marketing
- Outreach representing the organization + leading workshops at community events
- Consulting as a member of several committees
2022, content design, website design + build w/ mentee Victor Tran of a "text-based" website to house hundreds of resources and digitize all processes
2023, co-producer, facilitator + consultant representing CADA/West at the Members Unconference, LEAD Conference (Manitou Beach, SK), and via career consultations
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2022, graphic design for print w/ Ahmed Khalil of a cassette "o-card" and sticker label, modelled off of a classic retro tape design, for the album play Symbiotic Instruments by Roxanne Nesbitt, Ben Brown and Marielle Groven for the Tiohtià:ke-based label Small Scale Music
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2021–22, website design + build (Cargo), in French and English, for Tiohtià:ke-based dance artist Lucy M. May ¶ the site also features Lucy aka looumms' illustrations
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2021–22, website design + build for drummer Ben Brown's project Sound Sculptures, which explores found sounds and playing public structures like pitched percussion instruments
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2021, website design + build of a website for Overburden, an exhibition that brought together artists whose shared concerns address geology and its relationship to shifting climate patterns and resource extraction:
- Gabriela Escobar Ari
- Asinnajaq
- Patti Bailey, qʷn̓qʷin̓x̌n̓
- Randy Lee Cutler
- Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet
- Tsēmā
- Keith Langergraber
- Sarah Nance
- Tara Nicholson
- Carol Wallace
Produced by Kootenay Gallery of Art and Oxygen Art Centre, the programming included in-person exhibitions; online exhibitions via the website; and online talks, workshops, performances and interviews
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2021, website design + build of a low-carbon, under 50KB website for Anne Daroussin's company Echoing Frog ¶ I also trained Anne to update the HTML code directly
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2021, website design, build + collaborator on an online exhibition space for Oxygen Offsite, a project produced by Oxygen Art Centre that brought together seven artists/collectives residing in the Columbia Basin ¶ the artists worked from three prompts given to them by another artist in the project ¶ I collaborated with each artist/group to create a bespoke webpage to exhibit their multidisciplinary artworks:
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2020–21, website design, build + collaborator on an interactive multimedia website for sound migrations, where visitors are invited to mix and match improvised solo violin by Meredith Bates and improvised moving photography by Josema Zamorano ¶ the site was nominated for a 2021 Western Canadian Music Award for Visual Composer of the Year ¶ supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
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2020, writing + graphic design for print of postcards distributed to exhibtion viewers, inviting their participation in an "emergent" performance that I co-created w/ Randy Lee Cutler, Jess H. Brewer and Lindsay McIntyre, exhibited as part of Leaning Out of Windows at Emily Carr University ¶ there were several variants of the cards, with different invitations to participate, all using the same design
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2018–20, website design, build + webmaster, in French and English, for the annual gathering of choreographers 8 DAYS 8 JOURS ¶ the website was the hub for the gathering's activities and for compiling documentation from past events
As web designer, I became reluctant documenter of the final two events, including designing, managing and encouraging the online documentation for:
- 8 DAYS 8 JOURS 8, a site I designed, built + organized content for, including collaborating with several artists on their submissions to the site
- 8days8joursvii, using the Small Victories API (now defunct), in conjunction w/ Dropbox, which enabled participants to upload their own content
2017–20, co-producer of this annual gathering of artists for peer-to-peer exchange in dance and choreography ¶ produced by an ever-evolving group, we travelled to a different location each year ¶ for three years I was on the committee that wrote and disseminated the call in French and English to Canadian artists living in so-called Canada and abroad ¶ I also sat on the selection and external communication committees
