Please join us online for our first Twilight Hour talk of the fall 2021 series with Vancouver artist Jan Wade, on Tuesday, September 28 @ 5:00 pm (PST).

Zoom link: https://emilycarru.zoom.us/j/68071826380?pwd=dTJJWHRLbElkZTVuUEpLMG1taWFVZz09

Meeting ID: 680 7182 6380

Password: 066410

Jan Wade was born in 1952 in Hamilton, Ontario, to a Black Canadian father with familial origins in the American South, and a Canadian mother of European descent. Raised in a relatively segregated but close-knit Black community within the city, her formative years were heavily influenced by her local African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was also greatly influenced by Southern US Black culture and aesthetics from the perspectives of her paternal grandmother and great-grandmother. Wade studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design (1972–76). She moved to Vancouver in 1983 and became part of the underground art and music scene in the city, with its innovative performances, do-it-yourself art shows, anti-establishment ethos and spontaneous happenings. During this period, Wade began her research into African diasporic spiritual practices and decided she wanted her art to reflect where she came from and who she is, commencing her unique artistic journey marked by self-sufficiency, empowerment, hope and radical joy. The artist produces a wide range of mixed-media works made entirely from found or readymade objects and recycled materials.

Twilight Hour is a speaker series hosted by the Painting and Sculpture + Expanded Practices programs in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and organized by Elizabeth McIntosh and Emily Hermant.