Created by York media artist Mary Bunch, alongside Queen’s interdisciplinary artist Dolleen Tiswaii’ashii Manning, the project combines virtual reality (VR) technology with Anishinaabe philosophy to create an immersive 3D experience where viewers can explore different planets made from microscopic images of water – and contemplate the unseen life within it. “In a single drop of […]
An intricate beadwork of vibrant blues, brown and green depicts an Arctic shoreline, stretching from the sky down to icy hills and out to the sea, wrapped within a round border of caribou hair. The artwork is personal to award-winning Inuk artist and York University adjunct professor Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, who crafted the scene to resemble […]
The seed of “The Heights” began in 2020, when the Duke Heights Business Improvement Area (BIA) put out a public call for professional Canadian artists to propose a landmark public artwork that would bring back and reassert the Finch-Keele community after years of construction in the area preparing for the forthcoming Light Rail Transit (LRT) […]
Shant Joshi fell in love with the movies when he was a little kid. He can remember watching The Lion King on VHS “countless times, just rewinding it and watching it over and over.” When he was in high school, he would make the long trek from Richmond Hill on buses and the subway down […]