The final First Thursday of the season focuses on Picturing the Americas, an expansive exhibition of more than 100 paintings depicting iconic landscapes from the Arctic all the way to Argentina. Featuring a series of performances, critiques and art-making activities designed to engage with the histories of contentious colonization and conflict embodied in these works, July’s First Thursday is guest-curated by Ombaasin, the Indigenous artist collective of Wanda Nanibush, Elwood Jimmy and Brian Norton. The night features artists of colour and Indigenous artists calling attention to the complex meanings and histories depicted in Picturing the Americas.
Headlining the event, Polaris Music Prize–winning Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq will perform her searing live soundtrack for the 1922 film Nanook of the North in Walker Court at 10 p.m.
Sponsored By: Art Gallery of Ontario