Fantastic news! Congratulations to my client Jeff Thomas, an incredible artist, curator, mentor and friend as well as a most generous human being. We have been on an interesting journey together thinking through the ways digital technology changes his work as a photographer. ...
The internet is helping to improve the quality of life in Inuit Nunangat. It connects individuals across northern communities as well as those in the South and is increasingly helpful to the growth of local businesses and entrepreneurship. This is partially achieved through ...
The intellectual and artistic labour of Black women are largely absent from the Canadian art history canon, ushering the continuous urgency to name, visualize and celebrate their contributions. Tomorrow a historical event will occur at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). 100 ...
Anyone who attends art events in Ottawa has witnessed photographer Ming Wu working the room. As much as I get out to almost everything, Ming actually gets out to EVERYTHING. His coverage of music, visual art and other cultural events in Ottawa can be seen on his blog – ...
Congratulations to the many talented people who received awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) last night at the ceremony held at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. (view short list) I was thrilled to see raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art ...
This past week Barry Ace has been attending at artist residency at the University of Windsor that is taking place in tandem with the World Indigenous Law Conference held in Windsor this year. Barry is their first Indigenous artist-in-residence. (read Barry’s ...
Congratulations to Kapwani Kiwanga, the 2018 winner of the Sobey Art Award held at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) this year. Also present were all of the artists who were short-listed – Jeneen Frei Njootli, Joi T. Arcand, Jordan Bennett and Jon Rafman – as ...
Recently I arrived back from a research trip in Berlin and Warsaw, part of a cultural exchange course between PhD students from the Technical University in Berlin and Masters and PhD students in Ottawa at Carleton University. While in Canada, the students from Germany, many ...
The month of October was spent travelling to significant sites of memory, locations where the movement of time and what we call history is in various ways marked in stone. The journey started at Manitoulin Island on a last minute road trip with Barry Ace. Barry is working on ...
LE PARTY 2018 is this week! Tomorrow evening’s Silent Auction for LE PARTY at the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) includes the Critics’ Choice Award Winners. Client Jeff Thomas‘ work Imposition of Order, is one of the five works selected by the Critic Panel ...