Join Cultivate Art Commons for the A Conversation with Charmaine Lurch and Katherine McKittrick!
All Ages | Free
ABOUT CHARMAINE LURCH
Charmaine Lurch is a Caribbean Canadian conceptual artist whose multi-modal practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, performance and public art. Grounded in Black geographies and ecological justice, her work explores relationships between human and more-than-human life, through materials such as charcoal, wire, steel, as well as the use of light, and shadow. Lurch’s work has been presented at major institutions including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Jamaica, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and appears internationally through institutions such as Global Affairs Canada. She is a professor at Humber College in the Faculty of Digital and Creative Arts and is an educator committed to community-engaged, interdisciplinary learning.
ABOUT KATHERINE MCKITTRICK
Katherine McKittrick is Canada Research Chair in Black Studies. She researches in the areas of black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, edited Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and co-edited, with Clyde Woods, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Her most recent monograph, Dear Science and Other Stories is an exploration of black methodologies. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
ABOUT CULTIVATE
Cultivate Art Commons is a non-profit, artist-run centre, and registered charity in Katarokwi/Kingston dedicated to supporting contemporary artists through equity-rooted, community-engaged artistic practice.
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Cuckoo – Sweat Bee (2014) by Charmaine Lurch, 29” x 16” x 13”, mixed wire and red and brown wool. Photo Credit: T. Hafkenschied.