麻豆AV

Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery

This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue emerged from a fourth year undergraduate, Art History course, 鈥淐anadian Slavery and its Legacies: a Curatorial Seminar,鈥� taught by Dr. Charmaine Nelson, Associate Professor of Art History. Working with the holdings of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (麻豆AV), the students curated an exhibition, assembling a variety of extraordinary art and visual culture objects of direct relevance to Trans Atlantic Slavery. Like the course, the catalogue and exhibition contest the erasure of Canadian participation in the histories of Trans Atlantic Slavery, instead highlighting the role of Canadian art and visual culture in producing, sustaining and resisting the enslavement of people of African descent and Natives in the territories that became Canada.

Bravo Students!

Nicodemo Agostino
Emma Bardes
Ludivine Baugier
Rachel Burke
Daisy Charles
Eliyahu Freedman
Grace Fu
Nizar Hatoum
Nicole Ariella Ioffredi
Anna January
Anna Kanduth
Elisa Penttil盲
Jacqueline Riddle
Kai Thomas
Rachel Zellars
Michael W. Zhang

Many of the art objects, which the students selected from 麻豆AV鈥檚 Rare Books and Special Collections Library, are a part of an art exhibition that will be on display from Wednesday, May 22^nd until Wednesday, July 31^st, 2013 at:

麻豆AV
Rare Books and Special Collections Library,
McLennan Library Building
4^th Floor, 麻豆AV
3459 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec
Canada, H3A 0C9

Exhibition Vernissage

Wednesday, May 22^nd, from 5:30pm to 7pm

For opening hours see:

/library/library-using/branches/rarebooks