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Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 

In just a few hours, folks will be heading down to Toronto’s Budweiser Stage for the Juno Awards, and the show will be broadcast live on CBC tonight. Hosted by Simu Liu, who popped up on CBC’s Q last week, the event will feature appearances from Arcade Fire, Avril Lavigne, Andrew Phung (and a bunch of other notables whose names don’t start with the letter A). And if you’re still acquainting yourself with this year’s nominees, queue up this playlist from CBC Music before plunging into their extensive coverage of all things Cancon. Will you be watching? Here’s how to stream it all … plus the pre-show and a whole lot of bonus Juno content you might have missed.

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Illustration of three figures, two children in shorts and yellow hats and an old man in brown, walk on narrow street alongside a car and a goat.

Toko Hosoya

Shout out to the class of 2022! It’s the last day to visit OCAD University’s GradEx show, and as soon as I wrap this email, you bet I’ll be wandering over there. (Apparently it takes a global pandemic to make a person realize how much they enjoy wading through floor after floor of art-school output.) Illustration student Toko Hosoya is one of this year’s medal winners.

 
Colourful painting of three Asian female figures wearing warn outdoorsy clothes standing in a lush forest laughing and drinking. A dark figure with yellow eyes peers at them from behind a tree.

Emerald Repard-Denniston

Granola Gworl by Emerald Repard-Denniston. (Emerald’s another of this year’s medal recipients.)
 
Digital painting of a long-legged human figure reclining while holding a slice of cake with a large birthday candle. They wear all purple and have a horn on their head. They appear to float in space along with whorls of purple coral and cream, a unicorn cat and a birthday cake.

Anqi Cheng

Over at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, their annual grad show is on to May 24. I stumbled on this illustration by Anqi Cheng while zipping through the virtual version of the exhibition.
 
Series of four prints hunt in a vertical sequence.

Amy Crosby

In Halifax, NSCAD’s graduation exhibition just wrapped at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, but the venue’s Instagram has been highlighting the work of this year’s Student Art Award finalists, including Amy Crosby.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Film still of an older white man dancing on a rooftop. He is slender and bald and wears glasses and a black tank top.
Dad Can Dance

A family secret revealed: dad was a ballet dancer

 
In Dad Can Dance, filmmaker Jamie Ross tells the story of their father’s hidden past. The film won a Hot Docs Audience Award earlier this month.
 
Black and white photo of five women standing in the jungle. They wear fashions from the early 20th century.
Art Gallery of Ontario

Who gets to collect Black art?

 
Amanda Parris speaks with collector Kenneth Montague and AGO curator Julie Crooks about the ethics of cultural ownership.
 
Musician Charlotte Cardin photographed in profile against an orange sunset.

Norman Wong

 

Toronto music through the lens of Norman Wong

 
He’s photographed everyone from Drake to Broken Social Scene, and his work as a music video director has earned him a nod at this year’s Juno Awards. 
 

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Joanna Turner

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CBC logo against an illustrated backdrop of orange pink and red flowers; pink moths and red ladybugs.

@joturnerillustration/Instagram

May’s logo design is a salute to the artist’s favourite moth (and probably her favourite month too). Read a Q&A with the illustrator, Winnipeg’s Joanna Turner.
 

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

 
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