Biography
Ella Cooper is a multimedia artist, educator, impact producer, community arts programmer, filmmaker and the founder of Black Women Film! Canada. She has is dedicated to arts for social change and her emerging practice in photography and video. Her creative projects explore African diaspora, the creation of positive representations of the Black body in Canada, equity and arts for social change, community arts, contemporary dance on screen, hybrid identities and documentary storytelling. Ella receives continued support from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for her sector development programs, interdisciplinary art practices and media arts initiatives. She is a recent artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and upcoming Picture Berlin. Ella continues to be a guest speaker and panelist at numerous conferences that include the NYU Black Portraitures Conference (Florence) and Open Engagement (Chicago).
