Getting Started: Real Stories of Success - Brendan Fernandes | 7

In this episode of the Final Mile Club podcast, multidisciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes shares practical tips on securing funding as an artist. Grounded in lived experience as a York University alumnus of AMPD’s Visual Arts BFA program, Fernandes talks about the importance of maximizing available resources, documenting the creative process, articulating the meaning of art in various forms, and creating opportunities for community, visibility, and recognition.  

 

About the Guest  

Internationally recognized Canadian artist Brandon Fernandes fuses dance and visual arts to examine issues of cultural displacement, migration, labour, and queer subjectivity. Through a hybrid of artistic disciplines, Fernandes creates installation, video, sculpture, and dance that masterfully use art for advocacy. Fernandes is a proud alumnus of the Visual Arts BFA program at York University, where he specialized in sculpture. Now, he is inspiring the next generation of art-based changemakers as a teacher at Northwestern University.