Making History

Julie Crooks is head of the Department of Arts, Global Africa, and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Dominique Fontaine is a curator and founding director of aposteriori, a non-profit curatorial platform. Silvia Forni is a senior curator for Global Africa at the Royal Ontario Museum and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.

• Foreword Josh BassechesIntroduction Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, and Silvia ForniResidues of History and Ongoing Challenges1 Of Africa: A Reflection on "Speaking Back" Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine2 Opening Spaces: Of Africa, Hauntings, Hesitations, and Possible Futures Silvia Forni3 The Into the Heart of Africa Exhibition and the Coalition for the Truth about Africa: A Personal Journey Afua Cooper4 Lessons Learned from the Heart of Afro-Canada: Into the Heart of Africa 30 Years Later Rita Shelton Deverell5 A Life in the Day of an Object Nourbese PhilipBlack Art/Black Canada6 Here We Are Here: Creating in the Black Atlantic Sylvia D. Hamilton7 Sweet Childhood, Art, and Memory Bushra Junaid8 From Souvenir to How She Read: The Poetry behind the Design Chantal Gibson9 Between Absence and Presence: The Politics and Poetics of (In)Visibility in the Work of Sandra Brewster Pamela Edmonds10 On Sucking Teeth Michèle Pearson Clarke11 Hoodies and Regimentals: Black Attire and Access in the Canadian Art Museum Joana Joachim12 What to Wear in Canada in Winter Sally Frater13 Longing and Belonging: A Personal Journey through Art and Identity Karin Jones14 Singularity and Strangeness: One-on-One with Eddy Firmin Dominique Fontaine15 On Quiet Happiness, Charcoal, Wood, and Metal: Charmaine Lurch's Being, Belonging and Grace Katherine McKittrick16 Esmaa Mohamoud: Playing the Game Kelsey Adams17 Twisted Together: The Sweet Ironies of Belonging in the Art of Bushra Junaid Honor Ford-Smith18 A Self-Portrait of Creation: Depi m sòti nan Ginen Stéphane Martelly19 Digging Us: Making Visible Black Canadian Narratives Andrea FatonaTowards a History of Black Art in Canadian Institutions: Here We Are Here?20 Travelling Exhibition: Here We Are Here at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Shelley Ruth Butler21 Why Are There No Famous Black Canadian Artists? Here We Are Here and How Diversity and Inclusion Trump Aesthetic Critique Rinaldo Walcott22 The Pervasive Persistence of Primitivism: Face-to-Face and Exhibition Practices in the 21st Century Elizabeth HarneyContributors