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Visual Art

January/February 2021 / Visual Art

Looking Ahead to 2021

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

Four illustrators share their hopes for themselves and the world

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November/December 2020 / Visual Art

My Mum and Mister Rogers

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 - by Cinders McLeod

Fred Rogers believed everybody was somebody. A box of lost letters tells the story of how he helped my mother believe in herself too

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November/December 2020 / Visual Art

William Ukoh Photographs a World of Leisure and Black Beauty

October 29, 2020October 30, 2020 - by Connor Garel

For the artist, rest and relaxation aren’t just aesthetics—they are where freedom is found

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September/October 2020 / Visual Art

How One Artist Maps the Weather One Stitch at a Time

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 - by Abi Hayward

Bettina Matzkuhn uses embroidery to document the world as it changes around her

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September/October 2020 / Visual Art

Sisters: A Complicated Love Story

September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Jamila Noritz Reyes

Through my photography, I explore how my siblings and I have shaped one another

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June 2020 / Visual Art

How One Painter Captures the Wonder of Ordinary Spaces

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 - by Sophie Weiler

Margaux Williamson’s portraits of interiors pay homage to what’s right in front of us

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A celestial nebula composed of a latticework of green beads, with a line of yellow threaded throughout, and small circles outlined with brown and blue beads.
April 2020 / In Other Worlds: A Space Exploration / Visual Art

How One Artist Captures the Night Sky in Beads

April 3, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Pamela Young

The otherworldly beadwork of Margaret Nazon

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Arts & Culture / Comics / June 2019 / Visual Art

In This Wildly Popular Comic, Toronto Is Beautiful and Falling Apart

June 4, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Sharon Nadeem

Inside Michael DeForge’s new collection

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January/February 2019 / Visual Art

On Patrol With the Canadian Rangers

January 14, 2019December 18, 2020 - by Philip Cheung

This Northern military branch is often the first responder in the country’s most remote regions

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Arts & Culture / Visual Art

The Future of Inuit Art

September 13, 2018July 17, 2019 - by Catherine Dean

A new cultural centre in Nunavut is shaping the next wave of printmaking in Cape Dorset

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