Painter8’s “Fight or Flight” virtual art exhibition addresses a classical survival theme relevant to all in the global times we are in. Addressing our current times, the “Fight”, “Freeze” and “Flight” ...

In 1983, Toronto painter Rae Johnson, then aged 29, was hospitalized with a viral form of arthritis from which there was no certainty she would recover. She could not walk. Though her ability to use ...

Montreal artist Alexia Laferté Coutu adopted the word “poultice” to describe her sculptures, hinting at the processes used to make them. Laferté Coutu applies soft clay to the surfaces of historical ...

Whenever someone asks what I’ve been consuming lately, I answer, “pure trash.” Though always a lover of trash content, I’ve observed an uptick in my consumption since the reality of COVID-19 set in ...

Deirdre Lee is a poet, performer and maker of art, food, medicines and magic. Her work is intertwined with her complicated and sometimes confusing reality as a racialized, neurodivergent woman, and ...

Prairie Sky: I am a mixed, white-passing, urban-residing, Two-Spirit Indigenous person. That’s a lot of handles! As a result, my definition of home is sensory, and not stationary. In my undergraduate ...

It can be difficult as an Indigenous artist who is differently abled navigating within the world of art institutions. Even when the best efforts are put into accommodations, curators and directors ...

Land of the Lotus Eaters (1861) is a powerful precursor to contemporary Black liberatory aesthetics. While conceived by its African American creator as a “great picture” to rival the Old Masters, ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has an extensive collection of painter Edward Mitchell Bannister’s work, mostly oil paintings depicting pastoral life. Although Bannister was ...

In this introductory essay for the Fall 2020 issue of Canadian Art, Chroma, co-editors Yaniya Lee and Denise Ryner write about some of the origins of, and hopes for, this project Though we have been ...

The Black Curators Forum (BCF) is a knowledge-sharing initiative that fosters dialogue and social change, addressing unique challenges and highlighting the marginalized, suppressed and forgotten ...

Sometimes I don’t know into what world I have woken up. It is as if I went to sleep in a pre-COVID time and awoke to a new future. I scroll through my newsfeed and see abolition messages writ large ...