September 4 – October 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 6 – 8pm
Public Program: Plant walk and Zine making with Bishara Elmi (TBD)
32 Lisgar Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto
Public Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, 1 – 6pm | Extended hours on Nuit Blanche
In times of rupture, care often begins with what the body remembers—scent, soil, texture, breath.
Tending to What Remains is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that reimagines the gallery as a living garden: a shared ecosystem of care. Set within Workman Art ’s BEING SCENE 2025, it explores how artists with lived experiences of displacement, intergenerational grief, or mental health struggles turn to organic and everyday materials such as herbs, cotton, hair, wax, paper, and sound, to reflect on trauma, recovery, and community resilience.
Guided by diasporic, feminist, and ecological ways of knowing, Tending to What Remains gathers the work of Xece/Khadija Baker, Anna Williams, Shannon Taylor-Jones, Nadine Hajjaj, and Jawa El Khash. Together, their works create a contemplative space that explores themes of memory activism, collective tending, and the everyday rituals that sustain us.
BEING SCENE is an annu al juried exhibition of recent artwork by Workman Arts members and individuals who have accessed the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) services in their lives.
Being Scene began over 20 years ago on the grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Over the years, Being Scene has exhibited juried surveys of thousands of artworks by Workman Arts member artists as well as artists with lived experience who have received services from CAMH.
