Interview with Ismaila Alfa and Gordon Shadrach about Dis Mantle Exhibition at Spadina House - Friday, August 5th, 2022

Interview with Eli Glasner and Gordon Shadrach - 'We're dismantling how history is told'; How a new art exhibit is reimagining Toronto history and centering the Black experience

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A space to thrive, find belonging and reclaim history: 6 artists on what a Black arts centre coming to Toronto means to them

Toronto will soon be home to what is believed to be the first multidisciplinary Black arts centre in Canada. Efforts are currently underway by the Nia Centre for the Arts to redevelop the space at 524 Oakwood Ave. and transform it into a multidisciplinary hub for arts exhibitions, cultural performances, a digital media lab and community workspaces.

See inside a thoroughly renovated west-end rectory

Andrea Gelinas and her husband, Wayne Alexander, bought their home, a former rectory near Bloor and Dovercourt, in 2013. The place was a disaster: the interior was in need of a thorough gutting and the roof was Swiss cheese. But the price was right, and the property was a 15-minute walk from Roncesvalles, where Andrea planned to open a dental practice.

AGO to sell up to 20 A.Y. Jackson paintings to make room for underrepresented artists | CBC News

The Art Gallery of Ontario is removing 20 paintings by Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson in order to update the gallery's collection to include underrepresented artists. "We felt there was some value in sorting the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, and liberating those works into the marketplace," Julian Cox, deputy director and chief curator for the AGO, told CBC's Metro Morning.

This painter challenges views of black men one portrait at a time | CBC Radio

Toronto artist Gordon Shadrach is becoming well-known for his striking portraits of black men. He's painted them wearing everything from five-piece Victorian-era suits to hoodies and ripped jeans - even faces peering out from under dreadlocks, top hats, headwraps and fitted hats. Shadrach puts all his paintings in antique frames and sells them through Instagram and art fairs.

A Toronto artist and teacher helps ROM 'challenge' African-Canadian stereotypes

By day, Gordon Shadrach is a Grade 2 teacher at Kew Beach Junior Public School in Toronto's east-end, but by night, he's a painter whose work is now being featured in the Royal Ontario Museum's newest exhibition - something he says is "beyond my wildest dreams." Shadrach has been featured at venues such as the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and the Queen West Art Crawl.

This painter challenges views of black men one portrait at a time | CBC Radio

Toronto artist Gordon Shadrach is becoming well-known for his striking portraits of black men. He's painted them wearing everything from five-piece Victorian-era suits to hoodies and ripped jeans - even faces peering out from under dreadlocks, top hats, headwraps and fitted hats. Shadrach puts all his paintings in antique frames and sells them through Instagram and art fairs.

Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art

PRESENTED BY January 27, 2018 to April 22, 2018 What is the Black Canadian presence and history in our country? Explore these ideas, and the issues of belonging, in the ROM original exhibition, Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, presented by TD Bank Group, through the contemporary works of nine Canadian artists.

The ROM's Here We Are Here pushes back against narrow views of Blackness

HERE WE ARE HERE: BLACK CANADIAN CONTEMPORARY ART at the Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen's Park). 10 am-5:30 pm, $14-$20. rom.on.ca. To April 22. Blackness is not a monolith. It's a phrase oft repeated by the community (and a likely contender for Paste Magazine's next listicle: 6 More Things Black People Need to Stop Saying to White People in 2018).

Here We Are Here - Black Canadian Contemporary Art - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The MMFA will highlight contemporary creations by Black Canadians. Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art invites reflection through commissions or works by a dozen artists of African Canadian origin. Reviewing the deep-rooted histories associated with Black Canadians, the exhibition confronts the visitor with the persistence of the narratives.