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African Canadian Art History: The Vanguard

Who’s doing the heavy lifting to integrate Black arts into Canadian cultural institutions? Look no further!

Podcasts

These podcasts were created through a series of interviews conducted by Charmaine’s brilliant undergraduate students at McGill University (Montreal) for her fourth-year Art History seminar “African Canadian Art History” (winter 2019).

Each student was paired with an art historian, curator, artist, or cultural worker who has made considerable contributions to the landscape of Black art and culture in Canada. Their interviews represent an important step in the historiography of Black Canadian Arts.

Episodes
  • Camille Crichlow interviews Andrew Hunter

    49 min

    Camille Crichlow

  • Hannah Deskin interviews Pamela Edmonds

    35 min

    Hannah Deskin

  • Emily Draicchio interviews Prof. Alice Ming Wai Jim

    40 min

    Emily Draicchio

  • Klio Fotis-Zoubris interviews Dominique Fontaine

    44 min

    Klio Fotis-Zoubris

  • Samantha Holmes interviews Joana Joachim

    45 min

    Samantha Holmes

  • Kata Kuhnert interviews Gaetane Verna

    55 min

    Kata Kuhnert

  • Josh Marchesini interviews Kama La Mackerel

    60 min

    Josh Marchesini

  • Raven Spiratos interviews Charmaine A. Nelson

    20 min

    Raven Spiratos

Detail of Africa. From the Four Corners of the World Holding a Celestial Sphere. Ca. 1867. Plaster model, 280 x 177 x 145 cm. Inv.: RF817. Photo: HervÈ Lewandowski.

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© RÈunion des MusÈes Nationaux / Art Resource

Detail of Africa. From the Four Corners of the World Holding a Celestial Sphere. Ca. 1867. Plaster model, 280 x 177 x 145 cm. Inv.: RF817. Photo: HervÈ Lewandowski. Image licenced to Charmaine Nelson Nelson, Charmaine by Charmaine Nelson Usage : - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) © RÈunion des MusÈes Nationaux / Art Resource

Michael Wallace, “Twenty Dollars Reward,” The Weekly Chronicle, Saturdays, 8 February 1794, vol. vii, no. 402, p. 1; MFM 8165, Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.

Michael Wallace, “Twenty Dollars Reward,” The Weekly Chronicle, Saturdays, 8 February 1794, vol. vii, no. 402, p. 1; MFM 8165, Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.

William Notman and Son, G. Conway and Friends, Montreal, Quebec (1901), silver salts on paper mounted on paper, 17 x 12 cm, McCord Museum, Montreal.

William Notman and Son, G. Conway and Friends, Montreal, Quebec (1901), silver salts on paper mounted on paper, 17 x 12 cm, McCord Museum, Montreal.