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Hi, Art!

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 

Consider this the sequel to last week’s email — Cancon Movie Recos: 2 Much 2 Stream.  

National Canadian Film Day is back, and that means screenings will be happening all over the place on Wednesday. There’s a special focus on Indigenous stories this year, and NCFD has partnered with Toronto’s ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival to present a program of more than 25 Indigenous-made movies. They’ve scheduled plenty of special events too. Of note: a conversation with directors Tracey Deer and Danis Goulet. That convo will be live streamed on CBC Gem Wednesday night. But before tuning in, you’ll probably want to watch the movies they’ll be talking about, right? Here are all the ways you can find Beans and Night Raiders — and NCFD’s 1,000 plus events. Overwhelmed? Start with these staff picks … and then try these ones.

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Sketch of European-style apartment buildings in summertime. They are pale yellow and bordered by blue water at the foreground. Small sketched figures walk along the bank and can be seen on a balcony above.

@kirsten.sims/Instagram

It’s a long weekend, and my brain has officially entered vacation mode. Take me away, Kirsten Sims …

 
Photo of a pastel pink walk-up building on a clear-sky day. Swatches of pastel paint cut the scene. A cyclist is obscured, filled in with globby paint.

@madeleinegross/Instagram

Madeleine Gross …
 
Pastel hued sketch of aerial view of park in springtime. People walk and play with dogs. Birds fill the budding branches of tall trees.

@kokooma_/Instagram

Lee Kyutae ...
 
Nighttime painting of a cottage on a forest lake.

@marielarrive/Instagram

… and Marie Larrivé.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Landscape of winter forest. Detail from In Algonquin Park, an oil painting by Tom Thomson.
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Enough with the nationalist myth-making already

 
Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven painted a new nation into being, and they erased Indigenous perspectives in the process. 
 
Photo of a large orange sign that reads: Etsy. It is installed on a busy downtown street.
Getty Images

All caught up on the Etsy strike?

 
What’s next for artists (and shoppers) who choose to leave the platform? Boycotting Etsy comes with risks and rewards.
 
Photo of a man wearing a utility vest and a full face mask. He stands in front of a spraypainted picture of a female face and holds an aerosal can. He's lit the spray on fire.

Nick Wons

 

Would you live in a van if it helped cut costs?

 
Look, it’s tough out here in Toronto. Local artist Kizmet reveals how he makes a living.
 

Follow this artist

 
 
 
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Kizmet

@kizmet32
Photo of a black light installation depicting a female face split in three holding the palms of her hands up to reveal eyeballs.

@kizmet32/Instagram

Now that you know where to find Kizmet IRL, here’s where he lives on Instagram. (That pic? It’s an installation he built for a free art exhibition last summer. Here’s a little story about it.)
 

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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time!

 
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