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Thanks you Karyn Dwyer for this amazing throwback to Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Workman Arts Exhibition and Art Presentation of Vesica Pisces. Thank you to Collette Micks for this beautiful footage. It was amazing to see my artwork honored in this way. #ThrowbackThursday Artist's statement: I am drawn to the bold colours and tremendous beauty of Apanaki Temitayo Minerve's Vesica Pisces, which translated from Latin literally means ”bladder of a fish”. Since I’m from Newfoundland, I take this as an auspicious sign! I imagine inhabiting the world of Vesica Pisces, my body painted blue, draped over a quilt I’ll hand sew with orange, turquoise and yellow circles and purple hearts. The Vesica Pisces symbolizes many different things: the joining of God and Goddess to create offspring, Jesus Christ, the vagina of the female goddess, the formative power of polygons, to name a few… For me, it is simply the linking of two circles, bringing the outside edge of each circle to the midway point of the other, something I hope happens with audiences at Nuit Blanche. #nuitblanche2015 #vesicapisces #karyndwyer #workmanarts #apanakitemitayom #artperformances #celebrationofart #sacredgeometry #oshun #goddessoflove #animalfamiliar #peacockfeathers #shopapanaki

Talking back and together In a new five-part video series, the AGO and Workman Arts are joining together to empower artists exploring mental health awareness and advocacy. We spoke with Kais Padamshi of Workman Arts to introduce this artist-driven initiative. Check the link in the profile. So excited to be part of this video series done in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario and Workman Arts! Thanks to my sis @septembrea_ for keeping me in the loop and @all.blackart for their amazing filming expertise. It truly takes a village. @agotoronto @workmanartsto @kiaspadamshi @amandalederle @jenny.j.chen @nicholasridiculous @stardustfaerie @shopapanaki @apanakitemitayom #artgalleryofontario #workmanarts #talkingbackandtogether #videoseries #madartists #collaboration #artgallery (at AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVAzOe_g5Wj/?utm_medium=tumblr

Sign up for a collective virtual paint night to help raise funds for arts and mental health charity, Workman Arts! Have fun while contributing to an essential cause. Join instructor Claire Bartleman - an instructor in the Faculty of Drawing & Painting at OCAD University, Art Gallery of Ontario and Workman Arts - and a group of other supporters of the arts and mental health to exercise your creativity and paint a desert scene together over Zoom. Taking place on Thursday, April 22, 2021, 7 – 9 PM, this virtual paint night will support Workman Arts, a Toronto-based, multidisciplinary charitable arts organization that promotes a greater understanding of mental health and addiction issues through creation and presentation. As you paint your masterpiece at home, you'll also be supporting artists with lived experience as all funds raised go to support peer-to-peer arts education, public presentations and partnerships with the broader arts community. Cost is by donation with a minimum donation of $50. Materials can be purchased at the dollar store or an art supply store or mailed to your home for an additional fee of $25 per kit. Only one ticket is needed for each device/household, so the whole family can join in on the fun and feel good about supporting a worthy cause! Please check out the link to register for this fundraiser event in the bio. @clairebartleman #workmanarts #fundraiser #virtualpaintnight #ocadu #givetoagoodcause (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNFsG6cAsdP/?igshid=6ass51sudmao

YOU’RE INVITED! Join us for the Zoom Opening Reception of the 20th Anniversary of Being Scene! THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 7 PM FREE PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE AT: bit.ly/BS21opening* Workman Arts’ annual Being Scene exhibition is back for its 20th anniversary! Going digital for the first time, Being Scene 2021 will be offered virtually and includes three exhibitions in one: a guest-curated exhibition of 11 commissioned artworks titled To Speak Without Speaking, and a juried exhibition of 60 artists, a retrospective exhibition honouring the 20th anniversary of Being Scene. Please join us on March 4 at 7 PM for the Zoom opening reception, which includes a discussion with Executive Artistic Director Kelly Straughan, Workman Arts founder, Lisa Brown and To Speak Without Speaking guest curator Jacqueline Kok. Being Scene 2021 exhibition will be available to view online as of March 4 at BEINGSCENE.WORKMANARTS.COM *Only one registration needed per houshold/device #workmanarts #beingscene2021 #virtualartexhibition #speakwithoutspeaking #madartists (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxR5-Mg9Gs/?igshid=1l01k6ope5csm

Numb is my journey to describe the feeling most Black, Indigenous and Brown people experience while trying to find their humanity in the midst of a global traumatic experience. The devastation of losing loved ones to this virus was the equalizer in regards to humanity's losses though it still couldn't humanize the grief, loss, tears and misery that was being felt by Black, Indigenous and Brown people even as they lost loved ones to COVID. Our racialized bodies within the worldwide lens were the low-hanging fruit for white privilege challenged by the feelings of anger, resentment and rage due to the inconvenience of the pandemic, quarantines and the safeguards. Our bodies were collateral damage for the fragility of white rage which had nowhere to hide under the ever-present eye of social media. So this feeling of numbness slowly seeped in along with capitalist organizations and society doing the perfunctory proof that they are not racist in ads and in social media campaigns. Numb, we stitch ourselves back together holding on to mere threads of ourselves while we navigate anti-black and systemic racism in the time of COVID. #Numb #speakwithoutspeaking #workmanarts #beingscene2021 #virtualartexhibition #Alexithymia #apanakitemitayom #shopapanaki #apanakitemitayom #madartist #trinidadianartist #canadianartist #artistoninstagram (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLiGVNVA02m/?igshid=mgp8vuoytrmg

Still have to finish off Numb and gluing the felt background to the embroidery pieces. Hopefully, I will get this piece done and finish off the fabric work and put on the hardware. #Numb #speakwithoutspeaking #artinprogress #workmanarts #beingscene2021 #virtualartexhibition #Alexithymia #apanakitemitayom #shopapanaki #madartist #trinidadianartist #canadianartist #artistoninstagram (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLalJo-AOVd/?igshid=aydsgw69dbiq

Numb is coming along lovely and truly excited about this process. The hands are almost finished and then comes the next part of putting all the pieces together. #numb #artinprogress #workmanarts #beingscene2021 #virtualartexhibition #Alexithymia #speakwithoutspeaking #apanakitemitayom #shopapanaki #trinidadianartist #canadianartist #madartist #artistoninstagram (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSHnrxglD2/?igshid=1j9diusyf88po

Almost at the finish line with the embroidery for Numb. Have another commissioned portrait with a March deadline so need to get the final touches on my Being Scene Virtual Exhibition 2021. Loving the bling of the metallic embroidery floss but definitely less is more. #workmanarts #beingscene2021 #virtualartexhibition #numb #Alexithymia #speakwithoutspeaking #artinprogress #apanakitemitayom #trinidadianartist #canadianartist #madartist #artistoninstagram (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLLIjw6gapt/?igshid=1vcdq2d19d7lc