Confronting anti-Black racism through printmaking

Khadijah Morley has a lot on her mind. As a young Black female artist at the start of her career, she articulates the problem before her that many other Black artists also face: “Often our voices are excluded from the canon of Western art history.” »Subscribe to CBC Arts to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsSubscribe As a student at OCADU, a lot of her artistic practice has centred around drawing and illustration, but recently she has shifted toward printmaking. This move came out of an urgency to insert herself back into her own work, adding a literal human touch for those experiencing her art. In this new video series, called Opening Up, Khadijah does just that: sharing equal parts of her art and her soul as she grapples with anti-Black racism. While the printmaking studio she normally would use at school is currently inaccessible, she brings us into her home studio, making work in a traditional linocut process by hand-carving into linoleum. In Opening Up, the sequel to our self-shot video series COVID Residencies, we're asking artists how the upheavals and uprisings of 2020 are affecting their process and work. Find us at: http://cbc.ca/arts CBC Arts on Facebook: http://facebook.com/cbcarts CBC Arts on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbcarts CBC Arts on Instagram: http://instagram.com/cbcarts About: Welcome to CBC Arts, your home for the most surprising, relevant and provocative stories featuring artists from diverse communities across Canada. Our job is to fill your feed with the disruptors and innovators changing how we see the country through movement, images and sound — and to inspire you to join in too.

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