Visual Art | The Walrus

A Black man embraces a Black woman who is sitting on a kitchen countertop. The woman is looking at the camera.

July/August 2021 / Visual Art

The Way We Were

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 - by Jorian Charlton

Artist Jorian Charlton on the meaning of the Black family photo album and the essential nature of these archives

An illustration of the road from prisons to freedom. At the bottom is guards, fences, police cards. As the people make their way to the top of the road, locks on their wrists begin to be cut off and they are released freely into an open field

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

November/December 2020 / Visual Art

My Mum and Mister Rogers

November 3, 2020January 29, 2021 - 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

November/December 2020 / Visual Art

William Ukoh Photographs a World of Leisure and Black Beauty

October 29, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Connor Garel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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