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If you didn't get a chance to see Adrian Stimson's artist talk it will be available on our vimeo page until Sunday March 28! Check out the link below for the talk presented with Closed Captioning and ASL Interpretation. This talk was the first in our Queer Frontiers series and took place virtually on Saturday March 20! Thanks to Museum London for partnering!... https://vimeo.com/528405743

Our long-time collaborators McIntosh Gallery are hosting a Panel Discussion on their current exhibition featuring many great artists, including current LOMAA board member Matt Trueman and past board member Ellen Moffat! Please join in for this whirlwind of a talk TOMORROW at 5pm EST! All the info can be found on this event page

REMINDER! It’s the last day to view Adrian Stimson’s screening! Don’t miss out Also thanks to everyone who attended the talk yesterday. If you weren’t able to attend we will put it on our Vimeo page for 48 hours next week. STAY TUNED!... https://vimeo.com/521983682

REMINDER! Adrian Stimson’s virtual artist talk will be held over Zoom tomorrow afternoon at 3pm EST! Please remember to pre-register for the event and the link will come directly into your mailbox. Registration is open until 3pm tomorrow and we think it’s a pretty great way to spend your Saturday afternoon ... SEE YOU SOON https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-frontiers-adrian-stimson

Adrian Stimson's video screening is now LIVE on our Vimeo page! Please check out the link below to view the works and don't forget to sign-up for the talk Saturday March 20 at 3pm EST. Screening running approximately 30 minutes and includes: Buffalo Boy’s North - 1:28 min, 2006... Buffalo Boy’s Wild West - 2:34 min, 2006 Buffalo Boy’s Sacred South - 8:56 min, 2007 Buffalo Boy’s Don’t Look East - 7:03 min, 2008 Buffalo Boy Dreams in 4 Directions - 10:44min, 2019 Image still from Stimson's "Buffalo Boy Dreams in 4 Directions," where the artist writes: "Buffalo Boy is a character parody of Buffalo Bill and his Wild West shows. He is an identity construction of the Indian, cowboy, shaman and Two Spirit being. The Shaman Exterminator can be likened to Hollywood’s ‘The Terminator’, but tackles new age spirituality, shamanism and pan-Indianism. Naked Napi is based on the historical Blackfoot Trickster character Napi whose stories speak to Blackfoot ways of being. North: Buffalo Boy’s Genesis; This dream speaks to the beginnings of Buffalo Boy, his birth on the coldest day on earth, a super-natural life, colonial project and turning back time. East: Buffalo Boy’s I hear the train a cumming! with special appearance by Naked Napi; This dream speaks to the slaughter of the bison, the Canadian National Dream i.e. Railroad with Naked Napi with his exaggerated patriarchal phallus, battling the colonial white supremist patriarchal capitalist storm. South: Buffalo Boy’s ‘I love Australia, Australia loves me’. This dream speaks to the performance by Joseph Beuys ‘I like America, America likes me’. Buffalo Boy and the Shaman Exterminator reimagine Beuys’ performance, appropriating the Australian landscape and Dingo, using a bison robe instead of a felt blanket, golf club instead of cane and Dingo instead of a coyote. West: Buffalo Boy’s The Battle of Little Big Horny II; This dream speaks to the colonial battles we face every day! Re-edited video from a 2008 performance ‘The Battle of Little Big Horny I’, remembers Buffalo Boy’s battle with the colonial project, his death and resurrection into the lightness of being Buffalo Boy. I see my Blackfoot ways of knowing as central to my practice. The colonial world will always see me as the other, the outsider, and the problem needing to be dealt with. However, I am Niitsitapi, a Blackfoot person living in this world today and my centre transcends the colonial project. https://vimeo.com/521983682

Last day to sign up for our virtual AGM! Join us to hear about our COVID response, shift to virtual programming, and what is coming up next programming year! https://lomaa.ca/event/lomaas-annual-general-meeting-2

For our final artist in the Holding Space series we are excited to present Masking The Film by artist Madelyne Beckles! You can see the work through the link in our Instagram bio or on our IGTV Both will go LIVE tomorrow and be available for viewing until Monday November 30! Madelyne Beckles is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto. She holds a BFA in Art History and Women’s Studies and now puts her critical faculties to work as a co-host of the podcast High T. Her artw...ork explores themes of femininity and the body with abject aesthetics and camp humour, which has been shown at MoMA, the AGO, and Miami Art Basel. She is currently the Curatorial Assistant of Youth and Engagement at the AGO. Beckles has been collaborating with Delilah Rosier as 'Masking Collective' since their debut exhibition Masking is Always More Fun with a Friend in 2015. Masking Collective’s artistic objectives are to create interdisciplinary, immersive environments by incorporating a combination of readymades, collaborations and independently created artworks. Theory heavily informs their practice practice as they have, and continue to, generate works that critique the art and pop historical cannon, through an intersectional feminist lens. Follow us and stay up-to-date here: https://www.instagram.com/l.o.m.a.a/ Thanks again Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and the Digital Originals Grant!

Artist Ronnie Clarke @ronnieaaclarke will be taking over our Instagram to present her recent work soundscape, as part of our Holding Space series. Please visit us there over the next week to see and hear this project! Ronnie Clarke is a Black, queer and Canadian emerging artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Her work blends elements of choreography, dance, movement, collaboration, video and installation. She is interested in how language manifests, becomes translat...ed and is mediated in the digital age. With an interest in the poetics of digital gestures, spaces and interfaces, she often uses movement to investigate how technology plays a role in our interactions with others. She holds a BFA from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Clarke has performed and exhibited professionally at a number galleries and performance venues such as Forest City Gallery (London), Artlab Gallery (London), Trinity Square Video (Toronto), and Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto). Recent projects include a commissioned online performance for Artcite Inc. (Windsor, 2020) and an online residency at the 7th Annual Roundtable Residency (Toronto, 2019). Image: Spotlight, 2018. Performance at The Gardiner Museum with Younger than Beyonce Gallery. Photo by Yuula Benivolski. Follow us and stay up-to-date here: https://www.instagram.com/l.o.m.a.a/ Thanks again Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and the Digital Originals Grant!

Take some time and view this powerful work by Abdi Osman, available to the public until Monday November 16! https://vimeo.com/476036506

Join us on Instagram from Monday, November 9 to Saturday, November 14, 2020 to view the work of Abdi Osman. In addition, please head over to the link in our IG bio live tomorrow to watch Osman’s work Bajan Trans: new womanhoods from Barbados. The video will be available to the public from Monday November 9 to Monday, November 16, 2020. Abdi Osman is a Somali-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on questions of black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim ...and queer identities. Follow us and stay up-to-date here: https://www.instagram.com/l.o.m.a.a/ Thanks again Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and the Digital Originals Grant!

Please join us on Instagram over the next week as artist Jessica Karuhanga facilitates a Takeover as part of our Holding Space series! Jessica Karuhanga is a Canadian Ugandan-British artist whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black Diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity illness, rage, grief, desire and longin...g within the context of Black embodiment. She has presented her work at The Bentway, Toronto, Ontario (2019), Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2018), Onsite Gallery, Toronto (2018), Museum London, London, UK (2018), and Goldsmiths, London, UK (2017). Her writing has been published by C Magazine, Susan Hobbs Gallery and Fonderie Darling. She has been featured in AGO's Artist Spotlight, i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Border Crossings, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, filthy dreams, Globe and Mail, and Canadian Art. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Western University, Western, Ontario and Masters of Fine Arts from University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Image: Body and Soul, 2019, Single-channel video Follow us and stay up-to-date here: https://www.instagram.com/l.o.m.a.a/ Thanks again Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and the Digital Originals grant!

MONDAY will be the last day Chantal Gibson’s new documentary The Other James Baldwin Workshop will be available for viewing. Don’t miss out! And head on over to our Instagram page to view other works as part of her Holding Space Takeover. ... https://vimeo.com/471803892