Four distant sites. One glacial history. That’s the context for Ontario-based artist Michael Belmore’s Coalescence, a multi-part sculptural project. Carving and inlaying copper on 16 granite and bedrock boulders sourced from around Churchill, Manitoba, Belmore will create hearth-like arrays that appear to radiate heat. Central Art Garage Gallery news.

Ursula Johnson, a performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation ancestry, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Sobey Art Award. Johnson is interested in topics of identity, not only Indigenous identity but also queer identity, and the idea of stereotypes or stereotype perpetuation. The award ceremony will take place at the National Gallery of Canada. Central Art Garage News.

This two-person exhibition at the Museum London brings into dialogue the work of the Australian Aboriginal artist Yhonnie Scarce (Kokatha and Nukunu peoples) and the Canadian First Nations artist Michael Belmore (Ojibway).

Wanted takes newspaper ads placed by Canadian slave owners claiming their runaway slaves and recreates them as beguiling, defiant photographs.

Hamilton Spectator review of the AGO’s Every: Now: Then: Reframing Nationhood.

Michael Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, offers Rumble, a blackened copper sandwich of Trans-Am hoods, with effigies of spiritually significant creatures - a Thunderbird on one side, water panthers on the other - glowing from within.

Nearby looms Bell part of a slickly stylized photo-portrait project by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, which was drawn from a shocking source: 19th-century Canadian classified ads placed by owners in search of their runaway slaves.

Here on Future Earth is a series of photographs in which Arcand manipulated signs and replaced their slogans and names with Cree syllabics. Arcand wants us to think about these photographs as documents of “an alternative present,” of a future that is within arm’s reach.

It’s Complicated, an exhibition by 10 local Aboriginal artists responding to celebrations marking Canada’s 150th birthday. The exhibition is part of the National Arts Centre’s Canada Scene.

Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Artists Michael Belmore, Robert Houle and Camille Turner are featured.

Frank Shebageget receives the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards launched by the Hnatyshyn Foundation to honour Indigenous Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines.

Ursula Johnson receives the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards launched by the Hnatyshyn Foundation to honour Indigenous Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines.

Michael Belmore receives the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards launched by the Hnatyshyn Foundation to honour Indigenous Canadian artists working in all artistic disciplines.

Artist Michael Belmore's Coalescence will be installed permanently at four locations, after travelling from Cape Merry, Churchill (MB)

Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson and Frank Shebageget are among the 150 artists selected to receive an award. Laureates were selected by a national jury of peers led by Victoria Henry, chair of the Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Camille Turner’s individual practices are each concerned with walking, touring, questioning archives and uncovering alternative histories, particularly in regards to black and Cree worldviews. For LandMarks2017 the artists will host tour through National Parks “for more stories to be heard, and more voices to be reflected.”

“I often feel like what I am doing is science fiction,” says Turner “because these things haunt the present, and sci-fi is a great language for connecting with the ghosts.”

Canadian Art publishes 'Ottawa Art Walk'. At Central Art Garage (66 Lebreton St. N.), a reclaimed auto-mechanic shop in Chinatown, Danny Hussey and Bridget Thompson have created one of Ottawa's most exciting hubs for contemporary art.

Amalie Atkins' "Wundermarchen". CBC Radio 1 interview with Amalie Atkins about her solo exhibition Wundermarchen at Central Art Garage.

Saskatoon-based artist Amalie Atkins and curator Leah Taylor talk to Alan Neil about some of the surreal characters found in her "wonder tales." Central Art Garage News.

Michael Belmore, OCAD U's first Indigenous Visual Culture Nigig Visiting Artist talks about what is Indigenous art

Indigenous Visual Culture hosts artist Michael Belmore for its inaugural Nigig Visiting Artist Residency.

Jessica Bell’s solo exhibition “Fits and Starts” at Central Art Garage, a converted mechanic’s shop just off Lebreton Street North. The Vancouver-based Bell has been steadily unravelling the pretense that surrounds the art of painting. She’s worked on both sides of the canvas, has done away with stretchers and has laundered, folded, quilted, stitched, inflated—even made rugs from—her paintings.