Georgia Grieve is a librarian, museum professional, user experience designer, graphic designer, conceptual artist, and comics creator working in Toronto, Ontario. Her interests are in exploring the intersection of technology and arts & culture. In pursuit of this interest, Georgia recently completed concurrent Master of Museum Studies and Master of Information (specializing in User Experience Design) programs at the University of Toronto. Topics of interest include the decolonization of museums, culture-led wellbeing, accessibility, visitor experience, and participatory design.
2017 - 2020 Master of Museum Studies & Master of Information (User Experience Design) from the University of Toronto
2014 - 2016 Diploma in Advertising & Graphic Design from Humber College
2010 - 2014 Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Studio Art & Art History Minor from the University of Guelph
Between June 2021 and April 2022 Georgia worked to make Elgin County Railway Museum's Ontario-curriculum-based field trips available for remote access online. She updated lesson plans and created museum collection object lists, interactive online worksheets, and lesson videos. This project involved managing budgets, project management, coordinating with the web development company, and planning marketing for the online field trips and online database. Additionally, Georgia supervised student staff and oversaw French translation of all field trip content. If you are interested in in purchasing one of the field trips visit ECRM's website.
In October of 2020 Georgia along with Erin Canning gave a presentation on User Experience Design for Cultural Heritage Institutions at the Halton Heritage Services annual HERITAGE EXCHANGE virtually connected 2020 conference.
Between September 2019 and March 2020 Georgia and fellow Museum Studies student, Carly Hall, worked in partnership with the Markham Museum to create the Technology + Communication in Markham exhibition. Carly and Georgia were responsible for ideation, the big idea, research, curation, writing didactic texts, exhibition design and installation.
In the summer of 2016 Georgia was a member of the Humber College School of Media Studies & IT Transmedia Fellowship. Through the fellowship, she worked on a 360°, interactive, virtual tour of Humber’s Lakeshore Campus with gamification elements. Georgia worked on this project from start to finish and enjoyed every aspect of making the project come to life. She gathered and edited content in the form of photography, videography, and interviews, and worked with web developers, conducted user testing and contributed to the project launch. You can find the project at Visit Humber Lakeshore. You can find more about the Transmedia Fellowship here.
Georgia launched her comics project, geegeecomics on Instagram in January of 2017.
Georgia's artwork has been shown in a varity of exhibitions including the Orillia Museum of Art and History's Graphic Language: Georgia Grieve, 19th International Women's Day Art Show: Eye to Eye, and the University of Guelph's Photo IV Exhibition phōs.
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