Scavenged art
BY Ellen Curtis
WHEN PEOPLE COME to me after seeing my art, and I get to use found material, they might bring me broken things or stuff that’s been kicking around their house, and then I get to make something out of that.
“Walking Even Where No Flowers Grow”
BY Matthew Hollett
IF WE ALL walked a little more, how would the city change?
One Point, Two Points, Three Points Mi’kmaq
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
THE SAME WEEK I received a rejection letter from Indigenous and Northern Affairs declaring I was no longer recognized as Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation, my back gave out.
“They were clean, decent people… but they had no money”
BY Katie Vautour
THERE WERE a hundred ways to get home that didn’t involve walking past the Colonial Building. We didn’t take any of them.
Writing Wanda Jaynes
BY Bridget Canning
PREVENTATIVE CANCER surgery, Kathy Dunderdale’s twitter account, and mass shootings as regular news: these random happenings came together to shape the idea of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes. Wanda Janynes’ unlikely heroism and its personal fallout took shape only as I drew connections between those three things.
How do you deconstruct a sneeze?
BY Ellen Curtis
“I’M TRYING TO STRETCH out a small moment, one that only takes a second, and examine that. I’m looking at subverting traditional representations of women. Basically, looking at the expected behavior and appearance, and unpacking that.”