“How do we take the content we were going to do in person and put it online?”
Art Connects, a bi-weekly interactive series is the answer VAG came up with. On Tuesdays and Fridays, folks can sign up for free Zoom sessions that range from a curatorial “tour” of a current exhibition, an artist talk, or a conversation about a broader art issue or question.
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ILLUSTRATION: SEAL WOMAN. DISCOVER MORE ART THROUGH MAYA’S INSTAGRAM @MKCHIBS OR WEBSITE MKCHIBS.COM
Featured Artist of the Month Maya McKibbin shared in her interview with SAD web editor Becca Clarkson that growing up on the West Coast has certainly influenced her art: “I think it also plays a lot into identity. And I have a lot of questions about identity as a queer person and as an Indigenous person who grew up on the West Coast in a territory I’m not from.”
Maya's illustration Seal Woman inspired this month’s nature-bound playlist. This mix is made up of tunes from Indigenous musicians and gives you an opportunity to connect with storytellers and the unceded territories of the West through your headphones. Stay home, and stay safe!
“The pressure cooker of this event is the ultimate creative set-up,” says Colour Sound Lab’s Tara Travis. “You can take a creative idea and pick it apart and perfect it for years. The limitations of [Theatre Under the Gun] expand creative options because there’s no time for second-guessing. You just have to go for it.”
Read More“I feel like I kind of cringe when I think of myself as an artist. I see the term artist as a very fluid thing, and I’m very structured in what I think of and what I do. This is very much my career, so that makes me feel like less of an artist because it’s part of my sustainability. I’ve been having these feelings a lot these days in the corona lockdown. I work and I work, and I can’t go out after, but I don’t feel like drawing more because I just did that all day. I’m finding it hard to find the creative energy to dig down and do music and writing, even though it feels like now’s the time. “
Read MoreIn this Q&A, Lim shares what she’s been up to since winning the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize for her poem on grasping a culture she feels a part of but also separate from, “Arrhythmia.”
Read MoreFrancine Cunningham’s debut collection of poetry on/me is a beautiful balancing act of heartbreak and joy, survival and pain, humour and grief, belonging and loss. Deceptively small, the poems hum with power on the page.
“I wanted a book you could re-read and get something different and get something out of it depending on how [the reader] approached it,” Cunningham explains.
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PHOTO: DEUPHINE APEDAILE, KODAK 35mm. DISCOVER MORE ART THROUGH HER INSTAGRAM @the.dirtbag.princess
Featured Artist of the Month, Deuphine Apedaile describes in her interview with Becca Clarkson how she, from a very early age, started to explore how the term 'Artist' played into her identity and interest of capturing little parts of her body. Deuphine's photos have become a way for her to connect with other women and create a safe space where they get to be free and reclaim what it means to be powerful, sexy, and soft.
The photo chosen to inspire this month's mix is earth-shaking. The fire – The wind – The water, and the body-ody-ody, bearing witness to the fact that women are some kind of REAL magic. I'm willing to call it the rebirth of witches because the tunes will have all the elements moving with empowering verses. It's time to get undressed, walk barefoot, drink in the moon, and be magick – this is bitchin witchy!
xoxo,
Lisa
“We’re used to facing down health crises, from AIDS to a general lack of medical care. And here we are, again, facing a larger threat, using the web to reach our siblings and allies wherever they are.”
Actor Amy Fox on the choice to shorten the run of Trans Scripts amid COVID-19 concerns.
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