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from Ryerson University. His career as an organizer started at fourteen when coordinating a graffiti contest at the Central Canadian Exhibition in Ottawa. From the Art Gallery of Ontario to a mural at Kingston Penitentiary, he has since gone on to organize countless installations and exhibitions. This included the highly acclaimed Streetscape programming for Luminato 2008 at Regent Park and the Parliament St. Slips. Devon has a strong background in community organizing: he is a founder/curator of them.ca (an organization of street artists) and serves as the Visual Arts Director of Manifesto. Advocacy work includes founding the Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF) – an alliance of 36 organizations working to implement a tax on billboards with the proceeds going to public art. He is also a member of the Toronto City Summit Alliance’s Emerging Leaders Network. A specialist in process and community driven projects, Devon is currently a guest curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, Institute of Contemporary Culture for ‘Housepaint, Phase 2: Shelter’ (until July 5, 2009) and was recently selected as one of Toronto’s Top 30 Under 30
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