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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last time I saw Richard was in Berlin, in 2016. It was a small evening gathering, at a mutual friend’s apartment in Schöneberg, where he was staying for the weeks of his visit; he had moved to ...

Currently based in Halifax, Letitia Fraser has roots in North Preston, in rural Nova Scotia, which is home to the oldest and largest Black community in Canada. In her practice, she often paints atop ...

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 ...

IMANI ELIZABETH JACKSON: Did you see Atlantics, the Mati Diop film? S*an and I talked about the shots of the sea in that film. S*AN D. HENRY-SMITH: They’re really expansive. In its vastness there’s a ...

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 ...

At Canada's four largest art museums, the top leadership is all white—and the majority of their boards and senior leadership is too. What does this say about the possibilities for change in a moment ...

The two of us were born of the same streets, led by hand through the intersection of Bloor and Bathurst in Toronto, from the Black bookstores to the hair salon to the roti shop. This was a meeting ...