Worn: Shaping Black Feminine Identity - Royal Ontario Museum Black History Month Exhibit
As an emerging, living artist, Karin Jones has an interesting narrative of her own; a descendent of Nova Scotian Black Loyalists and a Vancouver based jewellery maker with a show opening at the ROM as part of the Museum's Of Africa/Black History Month programming. Her exhibit at the ROM called Worn: Shaping Black Feminine Identity is the first contemporary art installation presented as part of the Of Africa project. This site-specific installation was selected through a public call for artists, who were invited to reflect on the position and representations of African Canadians in the nation’s historical and contemporary narratives, in dialogue with the historical holdings of the ROM’s Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada.
Listen to the interview with Karin here
Photo credit: Royal Ontario Museum (© Eydís Einarsdóttir)