Artist Talk with A.Y. Johnson & Kareen Weir

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Join us for an expressive Artist Talk with Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist A.Y. Johnson, centered on her public sculpture "Oriki, In The Presence of Story"...

Rooted in Nigerian folklore, the sculpture honors ancestral knowledge and the enduring power of storytelling. The piece invites reflection, dialogue, and connection, encouraging visitors to sit with the work and experience its spiritual presence!

Attendees can expect an interview-style conversation between A.Y. and Kareen Weir, an award winning multidisciplinary artist and arts facilitator, exploring the cultural inspirations behind the sculpture, and the process of bringing it to life. The event will also open into a Q&A session, giving the public a chance to engage directly with the artist, ask questions, and share reflections! Refreshments will be served!

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A.Y. Johnson

A.Y. Johnson is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and community-engaged public art. She has exhibited and facilitated arts programming across the GTA and participated in the CreateSpace Public Art Residency with STEPS Public Art. Her practice emphasizes collaboration, cultural storytelling, and site-specific engagement.

Kareen Weir is an award winning multidisciplinary artist who endeavours to be a teaching and living example of the positive products that come out of the Jamaican society. She is a fine art graduate of the Edna Manley College with a major in Sculpture, but has been exploring the world of public art since immigrating to Canada. Her work looks at themes of memory, retention, representation and identity through language and the Black experience where it seeks to make visual impact and combat the feelings of invisibility by using bold print and colour in ways that are inspired by, and reflect, the bright and vivid culture of Jamaica and her countrymen.