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Archived Exhibitions

Jugs & Cans: A Reaping

09/10/2021 - 01/09/2022

This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.

Slow Cloth

09/07/2021 - 01/09/2022

Slow Cloth is an exhibition that attempts to provide a better answer to that question by illustrating the process of and telling the story of what goes into making handwoven scarves. A team of sixteen artists ranging from weavers with many years of experience to those just starting out were challenged to design and weave a scarf drawing from the colour inspiration from one of a set of five images.

Larry Weyand: Peeling the Sticker Off an Overripe Pear

03/12/2021 - 08/30/2021

St. John’s-based artist Larry Weyand explores family and memory through yarn and cloth, transforming moments in time into a series of two- and three-dimensional rugs.

Monira Al Qadiri: Diver

03/19/2021 - 08/28/2021

This immersive video installation by Monira Al Qadiri represents a new chapter of her ongoing search for historical ties between the pre- and post-oil worlds in the Gulf.

Marina Dempster & Meera Sethi: In Visible

03/12/2021 - 08/28/2021

Adornment can be wielded as a means of protection or immunity against visible and invisible harm- like a talisman, power heels, or an indigo stole dyed with plants made from ancient ancestral processes.

P. Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium

09/11/2020 - 01/03/2021

This exhibition of Burlington’s senior media artist P. Mansaram’s work thinks through the artist’s decades-long practice of repetition.

Paula Murray: You Are Me

09/11/2020 - 01/03/2021

Created for a solo exhibition at the Ottawa Art Gallery, this installation has toured Quebec and has been exhibited in the Taiwan Ceramic Biennale in 2018.

Stylo Starr: 89DAMES

08/28/2020 - 12/30/2020

89DAMES explores the beauty of Black women from the so-called ‘glamorous’ era of the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Desmond A. Miller: Aesthetics of the Archive

03/07/2020 - 08/23/2020

Aesthetics of the Archives explores the Caribbean and European ancestry of Canadian Artist/Researcher Desmond A. Miller. Through a focus on his paternal family’s location within the Black Diaspora, Miller draws on personal, family and institutional archives to create representations of family elders.

Division of Labour

01/10/2020 - 07/05/2020

Division of Labour is an exhibition bringing together artists who address issues of class, race, and labour as they relate to cultural waste.

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