ABSTRACT
Pride/Swell – a participatory visual research project exploring art-making, activism, and archiving – was originally imagined to be a series of in-person workshops with 2SLGBTQ+ youth from across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island (Atlantic Canada) who were meant to travel to Fredericton, New Brunswick, to create art and curate a traveling exhibit of these creations. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this in-person workshop-based plan needed to shift. The authors adapted their participatory visual research project to meet the public health and community care requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic. They did so by engaging in accompaniment – research that seeks to witness and stand alongside participants – through the mail. In this chapter, they highlight how they engaged in accompaniment with participants through the development of an exhibition of their artworks. They explore how themes of solidarity building, community, ethics, and care were highlighted through the development of the in-person art exhibition.
