Bad taste is an accusation that has attended Johnson’s career since the very beginning. Paintings she contributed, as a graduating student, to an open-house exhibition at the Ontario College of Art in ...

Alexia Laferté Coutu 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 ...

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 ...

Most people who have displayed work in The Cheeky Proletariat live or work in its neighbourhood, near Vancouver’s Carrall and Cordova Streets. Having worked nearly two decades in two different ...

Rebecca Bair Though a photographer by training, Rebecca Bair states that she is “100 per cent a multidisciplinary artist.” Based in Vancouver, where she recently completed an MFA at Emily Carr ...

Woods became versed in Black Nova Scotian history because he felt an obligation to teach more than just the few regurgitated facts about Black Loyalists that students usually learned during Black ...

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 ...

The cover image of the Chroma issue is a portrait of poet and essayist M. NourbeSe Philip taken by poet and photographer S*an D. Henry-Smith. Philip is an example of a Black thinker whose presence and ...

Black Power and the Art Community In Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power, Susan Cahan writes about how art museums have historically exhibited a pattern when it comes to ...

In June 2016, while I was working as the associate director of adult programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), I was asked to interview Stephan Jost, the gallery’s director and CEO, live on ...

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 ...