Black Women Artists in Canada: A Documentation and Analysis of the 1989 Exhibition Black Wimmin—When and Where We Enter
Author: Alice Ming Wai Jim
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Abstract:
This thesis examines the entry of Black women artists into the Canadian art scene during the late eighties by focusing on the exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter which was the first in Canada to feature exclusively the work of Black women artists. It will discuss the social and cultural contexts from which the project originated providing a literature review of Black Canadian art history and an examination of anti-racist activism in the arts and Black feminist thought in Canada. Using post-colonial theory to analyze the exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter as a "creative" text attempting to effect agency for Black women artists in Canada, this study ultimately functions as critical analysis and art historical documentation of the exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter, its artists and their work.
Acknowledgements:
I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Janice Helland, and my readers, Joan Acland and Christine Ross, for their professional assistance and critical commentaries during the writing of this study. I also want ot thank my family and all of my friends for their undying support of my work from beginning to end. Finally, I wish to extend my thanks ot al of the artists featured ni this documentary. Without them, Black: Wimmin: When and Where We Enter and, of course, this thesis would not have been possible.