Luca Cara Seccafien

Luca Cara Seccafien has worked in fundraising, operations and production capacities in the arts for 12 years, mainly existing on the stolen ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ people as well as Treaty 6: ancestral territories and homelands of Métis, Dene Suliné, Nehiyaw (Cree), Nakota Sioux, and Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) and Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) people. Luca is the current Head of Advancement at 221A Artist-Run Centre. They employ a relationship-centered approach to development in service of resource sharing, mutual aid and wealth redistribution favouring systemic and cultural change. They’ve had the honour of mentoring under or working alongside veteran artists and activists at equity-based and community arts organizations including: Powell Street Festival, Pride in Art, Gallery Gachet, Heart of the City Festival, The Works Art & Design Festival, and beyond. Luca co-founded a collectively operated community art space called WePress, where they strived towards bringing barrier-free print-based art activities to communities that lack meaningful access to technical art forms due to systemic oppression. Luca is also a printmaking instructor with the Anvil Centre and Burnaby Art Gallery. They graduated from the University of Alberta with a BFA specializing in printmaking (2013). Luca is currently working on a graphic novel about millennial queer friendship during the end times.