 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | (CBC Arts) | | | | Do you know about this artist? Hannah Epstein is the host of the CBC Creator Network’s Canvassing Canadians, a show that is everything you could possibly want from a totally gonzo vox-pop series. The twist? This one’s all about contemporary art. And while your girl Hanski will talk about performance art, landscape art — and chaos — with just about anyone, she always features a special guest or two on the program. Past stars have included Bridget Moser, Mitchell Wiebe and Graeme Patterson, and if you’re planning to be in Toronto Oct. 4 for Nuit Blanche, her next interview could be … you? Hannah and the Canvassing Canadians team will be roaming the exhibitions downtown and in North York, recording streeters for future videos. I can’t wait to see what they get. | | | | | Because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Sierra Barber | | Sierra Barber used glass seed beads and sequins to make this 2025 painting, Souvenir. When she chooses materials, she looks to represent the “layered experiences” of her Mohawk and European heritage. As she writes on Instagram, “Souvenir speaks to what is carried in the body through generations and considers love as something embodied and inherited.” | | | | |  | Water/Fall Festival | | The Water/Fall Festival launched yesterday in Toronto, and this is a sketch of Copper Canopy, one of the public-art installations commissioned for the event. To see it in person, head to Harbourfront Centre, where it’s hanging above Ontario Square. (Find lots more art and culture on the schedule.) | | | | |  | Artwork: Studio Rat; Photo: Nik Arthur | | As I was saying up top, Toronto’s Nuit Blanche is just around the corner, and Studio Rat has been busy developing a new project for this year’s dusk-till-dawn art crawl. Our team has been shadowing the creation process, so keep your eyes on the site for that story. Until then, here’s a throwback to one of the duo’s past works, L.D.P.E. (Lovely, Dreamy Plastic Experience) Quilt, as seen on the beach at Artscape Gibraltar Point. | | | | |  | Jaymie Raefta | | Meanwhile in Saskatchewan, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon has already wrapped! Here’s a highlight from last Saturday’s event — a still from the animated film Seemingly, Apparently, Outwardly by local artist Jaymie Raefta. | | | | |  | Annie Briard | | Halifax’s annual late-night art thing, Nocturne, is still a few weeks away. Here’s a preview of what Annie Briard is bringing to the festival Oct. 18 — Paysages parlés (Refracted Fields). During the event, she’ll use projection mapping to wrap the Grand Parade in surreal animated landscape imagery representing places across the country. | | | | |  | National Gallery of Canada | | | | | Now appearing at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works celebrates a radical talent who defied easy categorization. | | | | |  | Andrew Williamson/The Bentway | | | | | Hundreds of paddlers are set to perform on Toronto’s lakefront. A Lake Story is an epic public artwork, and today’s your last chance to catch it. | | | | |  | Renaud Labelle | | | | | | | Acclaimed for his paintings, Montreal artist Manuel Mathieu is exploring the world of fragrance. | | |  | Matt and Shawna Heide | | Designers Matt and Shawna have built their reputation creating colourful concrete home goods like this. Curious to see how they do it? Watch CBC On Design. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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