Portrait of Nina Simone, heart blazing, on Jeanne Mance St., by Montréal street artist (and jazz singer) MissMe, who describes herself as “an artful vandal.” For more on MissMe, go to her website at http://www.miss-me-art.com/. (Photo by Jody Freeman) —– Anonymous mural […]
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Jason is a 36 year old male. Thoroughly addicted to pushing charcoal and ink around paper, he is also the co-creator and director of EN MASSE, a large-scale collaborative drawing initiative based out of Montreal. Graduated from Alberta College of […]
Canadian/Australian visual artist Ling Yuen photography series ‘boxed – and if you must put me in a box, make sure it’s a big box’ was exhibited at Concordia University in 2010.
Keena – Native Indian Artist – 1949 – 1995 Keena was born to a Mohawk father and French-Canadian mother in 1949. She was given up to be adopted and, until she was a young teenager, grew up in an orphanage. […]
Printed originally by Viewpoints, The State of the Arts in the Middle East: Volume IV, The Middle East Institute, Washington, DC, March 2010. Reprinted with permission.
The title of the installation is “Housebodies”, as if our bodies house our life stories.
At 17 years old, the religious war in Lebanon that ravaged a beloved and magical place, sent me on a journey to Africa. There, pride, wisdom, love, art and knowledge developed in me and I could not accept what one colour did to the other colour.
