Making History: Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada [Paperback]

A thought-provoking reflection on Black art within the Canadian cultural landscape.

Featuring boundary-breaking artists and scholars,Making Historycollects poems, artist statements, and portfolios that showcase thoughtful understandings of Black aesthetics, Black contemporary art’s institutional presence, and perspectives on modern and historical art practices throughout Canada.

Making Historyexplores new approaches to the relationship between institutions, artists, and audiences while emphasizing collaboration, resisting exclusionary curatorial practices, and allowing multiple perspectives to bring about transformative change.

Julie Crooksis the head of the Department of Arts, Global Africa, and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Dominique Fontaineis a curator and founding director of aposteriori, a non-profit curatorial platform. Silvia Forniis a senior curator, Global Africa, at the Royal Ontario Museum and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Foreword  Josh Basseches
Introduction  Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, and Silvia Forni

Residues of History and Ongoing Challenges

1 Of Africa: A Reflection on “Speaking Back”  Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine
2 Opening Spaces: Of Africa, Hauntings, Hesitations, and Possible Futures  Silvia Forni
3 The Into the Heart of Africa Exhibition and the Coalition for the Truth about Africa: A Personal Journey  Afua Cooper
4 Lessons Learned from the Heart of Afro-Canada: Into the Heart of Africa 30 Years Later  Rita Shelton Deverell
5 A Life in the Day of an Object  Nourbese Philip

Black Art/Black Canada

6 Here We Are Here: Creating in the Black Atlantic | Sylvia D. Hamilton
7 Sweet Childhood, Art, lC�