Curator’s Talk:
Andrea Fatona and Nya Lewis in Conversation
Wednesday November
1, 6PM
Libby Leshgold
Gallery
Join us for a conversation
between Practice as Ritual/Ritual as Practice co-curators Andrea Fatona
and Nya Lewis. Taking the evolution of the exhibition as a starting point, this
conversation explores the complexities of preserving Black art histories in
Canada, material cultures and lineages, and building the archive through
intergenerational knowledge sharing.
Andrea Fatona is an independent curator and associate professor at OCAD University.
Fatona was the former curator of contemporary art at the Ottawa Art Gallery,
and has worked as the programme director at Video In, Vancouver, Co-Director of Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver,
and Artistic Director of Artspace Gallery, Peterborough. Her curatorial
practice is concerned with creating spaces of engagement for Black cultural
producers in Canada. Fatona is a Canada Research Chair, Tier II in Black
Canadian Diasporic Cultural Production.
Nya Lewis is an independent curator/writer currently serving as the Director/curator
of Artspeak Gallery, and the inaugural Research Fellow at the Vancouver Art
Gallery. Her practice is a culmination of centuries of African resistance,
love, questions, actions, study and embrace.