ICYMI: Wheatpasting With Adeyemi Adegbesan (virtual)
In case you missed it, watch back to learn more about Adeyemi Adegbesan’s work previously installed inside and outside the AGGV building, in conjunction with Adorned. “This body of work explores the duality of Blackness; on one hand vastly diverse ranging across regions, ethnicities, religions, and cultures; yet on the other hand, often seen through […]
ICYMI: #WIP Podcast: Holding Ground (virtual)
In case you missed it, check out this #WIP (Work-In-Progress) Podcast trailer. In this episode we were joined by collaborators from the AGGV’s Indigenous Intergenerational Exchange project. This group, which includes 12 participants who are contributors to social justice and frontline activism in their respective communities began gathering bi-weekly in February 2021 to share cultural […]
ICYMI: Indigenous Textiles with Sho Sho Esquiro (virtual)
In case you missed it, learn more about Sho Sho Esquiro’s work that was previously installed in the Adorned exhibition. In this collection Sho Sho Esquiro focused on colonial impositions of church and state, resiliency and resistance and intergenerational strength and survival. “As an Indigenous Artist it is my absolute life’s passion to express myself […]
ICYMI: #WIP Podcast: Denyse Thomasos: Odyssey (virtual)
In case you missed it, check out this #WIP (Work-In-Progress) Podcast trailer. In this episode we learned about the work of Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos, and her important career and historic contribution to BIPOC voices in Canadian art. From December 2021 through March 2022 the AGGV was thrilled to host the exhibition Denyse Thomasos: Odyssey […]
ICYMI: Embroidering Phulkari with Simranpreet Anand (virtual)
In case you missed it, watch back as Simranpreet Anand embroiders a worn antique Phulkari that was previously on view in Adorned. Learn more about how her practice is informed by familial and community histories, often engaging materials and concepts drawn from the Punjabi diaspora, and how her work speaks to the reclamation of cultural […]
ICYMI: #WIP Podcast: Reverberations (virtual)
In case you missed it, check out this #WIP (Work-In-Progress) Podcast trailer. In this episode we were joined by some of the early career artists who were invited to respond to objects from the Gallery’s extensive museum collection in the Reverberations exhibition. Listen as Mel Granley, Guest Curator at the AGGV and your host for […]
ICYMI: Blueprints for the Afrofuture with Joshua Ngenda (virtual)
In case you missed it, check out this brief recap from the second iteration of Blueprints for the Afrofuture – an AGGV program curated by local film and dance artist Kemi Craig. On July 30, 2022, Joshua Ngenda took over our Instagram account for the morning and invited the community into his studio to watch […]
