Mitchell Art Gallery invites students, staff and faculty to New Methods for Black Canadian Art History, a talk by author Yaniya Lee on Friday, September 19, 12-1 p.m. at Roundhouse event space, in conjunction with the MAG’s new exhibition, New Routes: threads across space and time.

Yaniya Lee is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024).

As a graduate student at Queen’s University, Lee experimented with Black Studies approaches to Art History. Her projects include the Black Canadian Art History Scholarship Database (blackartstudy.ca) and Doing the Work: Selected Syllabi (greyzonepedagogies.com).

Lee has taught and written about art for universities, museums, and institutions across North America and Europe, including Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, de Appel Amsterdam, Dutch Art Institute, Momus, Toronto Biennial of Art, Queen’s University, and University of Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Racar: Canadian Art Review, Public Journal, Asia Art Archive, C Magazine, Flash Art, Justsmile, and Montez Press.

This event is free to attend and no registration is required. Ground level seating will be available. Head to the MAG’s website for details.

Photo of Yaniya Lee by Yuula Benivolski

 

From the Mitchell Art Gallery