Josh Jensen & Joé Côté-Rancourt
Curators in Sustainability and Engagement

FOFA Gallery

Concordia University

April 27, 2026, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México

10:00-13:00 h

Since 2023, FOFA Gallery has committed to eliminating the use of PVC vinyl lettering, a material widely employed in exhibition signage despite its significant environmental impact. This session, led by Co-Curators of Sustainability and Engagement Joé Côté-Rancourt and Joshua Jensen, invites participants to engage critically and practically with strategies for reducing material waste in exhibition-making. Combining presentation and hands-on components, the session introduces a range of alternatives to vinyl signage alongside a suite of resources developed through FOFA Gallery’s ongoing Exploring Sustainability Across the Arts (ESA) initiative, including a bilingual Sustainable Signage Toolkit, a signage menu, and affiliated research produced in collaboration with artists, technicians, and partner organizations. Framed by broader discussions on degrowth, localized material practices, and the recombination of existing tools and techniques, the session explores pathways toward more sustainable exhibition practices across museums, galleries, and artist-run centres.

Joé Côté-Rancourt is a multidisciplinary artist and curator working across sculpture, scenography, installation, and performance. As Co-Curator of Sustainability at FOFA Gallery in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, he develops approaches to exhibition-making that foreground material responsibility and adaptive reuse. His technical experience in Concordia University’s woodshop, foundry, and digital fabrication lab informs both his artistic and curatorial work, shaping sustainable methods of production and display. His practice examines material histories and the systems that support—or destabilize—them, attending to how structures are built, maintained, and transformed, and who is implicated in these processes. Côté-Rancourt holds a BFA in Sculpture from Concordia University.

Josh Jensen is a queer artist and emerging curator born in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Treaty 6 Territory, Edmonton), whose work engages sustainability through material experimentation and process. He is Co-Curator of Sustainability at FOFA Gallery in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Working across analogue photography and installation, his practice incorporates bio-based materials—including kombucha leather and natural dyes—as well as methods of reuse and repair, foregrounding approaches to circularity in artmaking. His work has been presented at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg), Belfast Exposed (Northern Ireland), and Casa (Lethbridge, Alberta). Recent projects include CORED(2026), a two-person exhibition with Lucy Gill at Produit Rien. Jensen holds a BFA in Photography from Concordia University

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