Follow violinist Nadia Monczak as she joins relief efforts on the Polish-Ukrainian border.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 
Back in 2018, CBC Arts ran this short doc about Montreal musician Nadia Monczak. At the time, Nadia was in Greece, teaching violin to children living in a refugee camp, and though it was just a two-week trip, the experience had a life-changing effect. As she says at one point in the video, “The work that I’ve done here is inspiring me to continue doing this kind of work.” In this week’s top featured story, we catch up with Nadia, who’s recently returned from another humanitarian mission, this time on the Polish-Ukrainian border. The journey was captured by filmmaker Thomas Szacka-Marier, who also produced the story in Greece. Find that piece (plus a Q&A with Thomas) after the jump.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

Painting of a skelton standing in a blue rippled pool looking at a small speckled butterfly in flight.

Paul Heyer

Cooling Off by Paul Heyer.

 
Coloured pencil drawing of a long-haired-blue-eyed person in a pond. They appear in close up, looking at a swimming frog. Their face is almost entirely submerged, just their eyes and the top of their head is visible. Wavy blue and green reeds fill the background.

Jess Stanley

Keeping the pool party going with this drawing by Vancouver’s Jess Stanley.
 
Photo of a shiny metallic sculpted eagle head on top of a white tree trunk. Bronze bells fall from the back of the eagle's head. The form rests against a grey wall.

Tracey Lynne/National Arts Centre

The National Arts Centre in Ottawa recently unveiled a new sculpture by Rebecca Belmore. This is just a detail from the large-scale piece, which is now on permanent display. (There are a couple more pics on the NAC’s Instagram.)
 
Photo of a mural on a corner building in Montreal. It is wildly colourful and suggests a psychedelic cartoon face that stretches from the foundation to the roof. An owl or bat-like characer with arms akimbo appears as a sculptural figure on the roof. Two masked figures on stilts, one red and one yellow, stand in front of the building. A 3D toothy mouth protrudes from the corner of the mural.

Danaé Brissonnet

Is it a mural? A puppet? The most incredible thing Danaé Brissonnet has ever done? (I think it might be all three … and it’s on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal!)
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Medium closeup of Nadia Monczak, a young white woman with straight light-brown hair. She wears a yellow and black jacket and talks with a man in a black hoodie whose back is to the camera.
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A Montreal artist’s journey to Lviv

 
Follow violinist Nadia Monczak as she joins relief efforts on the Polish-Ukrainian border.
 
Photo collage of three screen shots from TikTok. In each image, Shefali Panicker appears in close-up She is a young woman of colour with long wavy black hair.
@shefalipani/TikTok

Singing in 9 different languages earned her 9 million likes

 
Get to know Shefali Panicker, a TikTok sensation from London, Ont.
 
Full-body photo of Rob Kempson in a photo studio, the borders of the white photo backdrop revealed by a wide shot. Rob is a white man with short brown hair, a goatee and glasses. He wears a yellow button-down and charcoal sport coat and keeps his hands in the pockets of his skinny jeans.

Andrew Rowat

 

This artistic director ditched the city for a new life in small-town Ontario

 
In the middle of the pandemic, Rob Kempson left Toronto for Port Hope, Ont. He’s now running the community’s Capitol Theatre, and as Rob writes for CBC Arts, the move has been “something of a dream come true.”
 

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Krystle Silverfox

@krystlesilverfox
Photo of artwork installed on a white wall. It is comprised of a painted canvas and black fringe, that drops from the bottom of the canvas in irregular strands. The painting suggests a pile of ovoid shapes, inspired by Indigenous art traditions.

Krystle Silverfox

Now in the running for this year’s Sobey Art Award, Krystle recently Instagrammed this piece of hers from 2013 (Reconcile This!). As she writes in the post, her artistic journey really started when she made this work: “I may have been the artist behind this painting, but really this painting made me.” (Read a Q&A with her here.)
 

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And if that’s still not enough content to fill your Sunday morning, here are a few choice items from my browser history: Should you go to art school? Don’t ask me, but Miranda July, Ai Weiwei (and a bunch of other art stars) have some thoughts. Twitter: not just for trolls anymore. (Is it actually the perfect social platform for artists?) Indigenous art knock-offs are everywhere, but could changes to Canadian copyright law put a stop to it? Welcome to the Stolen Gallery of Art. (Don’t get too excited. It’s just an app.) As It Happens made whatever sense could be made of #GentleMinions. Watch this year’s Prism Prize-winning music video. Why does absolutely everyone cover the same Leonard Cohen song? (You know the one.) A very popular profile of Nathan Fielder, whose work I enjoy far too much.

 

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

 
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