Art and literature.
Not just the title of this gorgeous work of neo-classicism, but this essential element of NQ is also a nod towards our upcoming (extra-special) theme.
Stay tuned!
Painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
While I was home in Newfoundland this past summer, I was given a copy of a series of graphic novels by David Alexander Robinson dubbed Tales from Shadow River, illustrated stories about Indigenous people (Highwater Press). The Healer: Mary Webb, retells the life of my paternal great-great-grandmother, Mary Webb, a Mi’kmaq healer and midwife to 700 babies around Bay St Georges on NL’s west coast.
Tara Bryan was a prominent, popular, and prolific visual artist and book designer whose death in September 2020 was a true loss for the arts community here and beyond. Today…
The Great Auk got a raw deal. Setting its cloned Razorbill-hybrid progeny down on Funk Island as an act of atonement is a tempting proposition. Easing our collective guilt aside, a resurrected Auk could be an economic boon. Every cove and tickle would put in an ACOA grant to host a penguin hatchery.