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Total Inversion: Black Studies in Canadian Art History
Art NOW series featuring Joana Joachim
March 7 | noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

Dr. Joana Joachim is Assistant professor of Black Studies in Art History and Social Justice at Concordia University. Her research interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies. Her curatorial projects include Estuaries at the Owens Art Gallery (2024) and Blackity at Artexte (2021). She earned her PhD in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University. Dr. Joachim obtained her master’s in Museology from Université de Montréal and her BFA from University of Ottawa. In addition to the special issue of RACAR, “salt: For the preservation of Black diasporic visual histories” co-edited with Pamela Edmonds (2022), her writing has appeared in The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History (2024);History, art and Blackness in Canada (2023); Canadian Journal of History (2021); and C Magazine (2020). She joins us via zoom in the University Recital Hall for this talk.

Image: Installation view of Blackity at Artexte, photo by Paul Litherland 2021.