Artist Talk: Deanna Bowen - They Tried to Destroy Us - Disproving Myths About Black Absence in Canada

Bowen will talk about her decades-long research-creation practice, an anti-Black petition from 1911, and recent projects that make critical/historical links between Bowen’s family history of enslavement in the US and migration to Canada, Creek Negroes & the Trail of Tears, British Imperialism under Queen Victoria and the white supremacist ambitions of the National Gallery of Canada’s collection circa 1888-1943.