Artist Sarah Cullen (ON) reflects on MOTHRA: Artist-Parent Project, a residency and network for artist-parents and their children, designed to question dominant ideas about care work.
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Purdah is a term that encapsulates the concept and practice of veiling and voluntary seclusion from society. The word “Purdah,” derived from Farsi, can also have the literal meaning of “curtains.” “Purdah: Veiled Realities” is a multimedia project that explores this concept through a personal journey, inspired by the rich cultural and feminist lineage of my Islamic heritage, where women in my ancestry have voluntarily embraced various forms of Purdah, such as the hijab, Balochi chadar, niqab, and burqa…
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Nine artists share responses to prompts that aim to interrogate and help situate digital arts practice.
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More than forty years after completing her first photographic works–portraits of of her family and towns members of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan–a community that still counts her as one of their own, Sandra Semchuk’s latest projects continue to enact forms of recognition and cross-cultural learning.