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Apanaki Temitayo
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Happy Heavenly Birthday to my father, Irwin Ewart Verling Minerve. He carried our Minerve lineage with pride—roots in Trinidad, Barbados, West Africa, and Amerindian heritage. Our love was complex, but real. Rest in Power, Daddy.
#RestInPower
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🧵 This week in Fall Into Form: Felt Ornaments – “Small Joys & Sacred Symbols.” Participants stitched joy, color & gratitude into every piece. 💭 What tiny joys kept me going this year?

Next → Mandala Collage 🎨 ❄️ Winter Series coming soon!

#FallIntoForm #FeltOrnaments #ArtForHealing #CAMH #PFLS #CLC
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This Saturday at CAMH Unit CCC7, we explored Butterfly Bliss: Metamorphosis & Renewal 🦋 through Paper Collage — what began as structure unfolded into free-form creativity and transformation. 🎨💫

Next week → Mask Making with Textile Art Collage! 🎭✨

#BloomAndMend #WorkmanArts #CAMHArtCart
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Last Tues at CAMH Unit 1–4, we celebrated All Hallows’ Eve with a Mask Making Fabric Collage Workshop 🎭✨ exploring identity, transformation & creativity as part of Bloom & Mend: An Expressive Art Journey. Next up → Fabric-Painted Tote Bags! 🎨👜
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🌿 Last week in Fall Into Form: Air Dry Clay Bowls – “Impressions of Nature.” 💭 What impressions has this season left on me?

🧵 This Friday → Felt Ornaments – “Small Joys & Sacred Symbols.” Celebrate joy through color, stitching & creativity! 🎨 Free | Drop-in | 1–3PM | PFLS & CLC #FallIntoForm
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Honored as Artist Researcher for the Black Maternal Pedagogies Project @yorkuniversity with Dr. Stephanie Fearon.

Through appliqué, Black mothers share powerful stories of advocacy + resilience — art that informs how organizations support Black women + their children. 🖤

#BlackMaternalPedagogies
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
👜 Fall Into Form Week 8: Fabric Painted Tote Bags!
Participants stenciled + hand-painted custom totes for the fall season 🍂

Next week → Air Dry Clay Bowls: “Impressions of Nature.” 🌿
Art, grounding, and connection through texture + touch.

#FallIntoForm #FabricPaintedTotes #CAMH #PFLS #CLC
October 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Excited to share the fabric design for the Black Maternal Pedagogies Project @yorkuniversity!

Grateful to work with Dr. Stephanie Fearon as Artist Researcher, helping Black mothers share their stories of advocacy for their daughters through quilting & art. 🖤

#BlackMaternalPedagogies #BlackMothers
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📝 This weekend at CCC7: Found Poetry Workshop with Maya Angelou’s work 💫
Participants discovered their own voices through her words.

💭 “How does my voice rise when I let someone else’s words guide me?”

Next → Bloom & Mend continues with art, healing & reflection. 🌿

#Bloom&Mend #FoundPoetry #CAMH
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We began our Bloom & Mend: An Expressive Art Journey series with Unit CCC7 @CAMHnews 🌸

Week 1: Intro to Textile Art Collage — exploring texture, colour & storytelling through fabric.
Next week: Blackout Poetry inspired by Maya Angelou 🖋️

#BloomAndMend #CAMHArtCart #WorkmanArts #ApanakiTemitayo
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Starting a 13-week Bloom & Mend: An Expressive Art Journey series with CAMH Unit 1 through @WorkmanArts 🎨

Week 1: Intro to Textile Art — exploring texture, colour & healing through fabric collage. Grateful to create with such inspiring participants. 💛

#BloomAndMend #ArtCart #WorkmanArts
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Week 4 of Fall Into Form ✅
Sanctuary in Landscape 🍂 → exploring background, midground & foreground through paper collage + texture.

Next week: Butterfly Bliss: Metamorphosis & Renewal 🦋
Reflection on change & growth with tear-away collage.

#FallIntoForm #ButterflyBliss #CAMH #PFLS #CLC
October 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🌙✨ Location Update!

Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty is now inside North York Centre, past the food court near the library.

Join us for Nuit Blanche, Oct 4, 7PM–7AM 🎨

Artists: @apanaki_apnki @claudialuzd_ @hicaezar @orphicinema @yinkore_

#NorthboundExhibition #NuitBlancheToronto
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Honoured to be Artist Researcher for the Black Maternal Pedagogies Project @YorkUniversity 🖤.

On Oct 25, Black mothers will gather in a quilting workshop to share stories of navigating schools w/ their daughters. Lived experience → collective art.

#BlackMaternalPedagogies #ArtsBasedResearch #YorkU
October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This Sat 🌙✨ I’ll be live at Nuit Blanche Toronto!
🎨 Textile art (for sale)
🎶 Entertainment
👗 Fashion Show
💜 All for a community fundraiser

📍 TMU Podium (POD 358), 350 Victoria St.
🕕 6–8 PM | 🎟 $20 RSVP

Come celebrate art, fashion & community!

#NuitBlancheToronto #TorontoEvents #SupportLocalArtist
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
✨ Nuit Blanche Weekend ✨

Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty at North York Centre—featuring @apanaki_apnki, @claudialuzd_, @hicaezar, @orphicinema, @yinkore_

📍 On view till Oct 21
📸 by @green_yang

Share your shots + reflections with:
#NorthboundExhibition #SongsOfSovereignty #NuitBlancheTO
September 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📔 This week in Fall Into Form: Collage Your Own Journal ✨
💭 Prompt: “What story am I ready to begin writing?”

Next Friday → Create Your Cozy Place – “Sanctuary in Landscape” 🍂
💭 Prompt: “What does safety look like in my mind?”

#FallIntoForm #ArtJournaling #SanctuaryInLandscape #CreativeWellness
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🎨 Free creative workshop this Friday!
Join me @ PFLS & CLC for community, accessibility, and time to make something beautiful & uniquely your own.

📅 Friday | 1–3 PM | Supplies included

#FallIntoForm #AccessibleArt #CreativeCommunity #TorontoEvents #CAMH #PFLS #CLC
September 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🎨 Our Fall Into Form workshop series launched today with Intro to Textile Art Collage!

Next week: Chance Poetry on Canvas: “Fragments of Baldwin” 🖋️
Cut-up James Baldwin’s words → create your own poetry on canvas.

💭 Prompt: “What truth wants to speak through me?”

#CreativeWellness #CAMH
September 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Recap: Northbound: Songs of Sovereignty opening! 🎉
On Aug 21, we gathered at North York Centre to celebrate powerful works by Segun, Claudia, Apanaki, Ghislan & Yinkore—curated by @museandmuseums' Funmi Ajala & Shadio Hussein.
On view till Oct 31, 2025! 📍5150 Yonge St
📸: @green__yang
September 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Toronto, Nuit Blanche is here! 🌙✨
Join me Sat Oct 4 @ TMU (POD 358) for a Community Initiative Fundraiser showcasing art, music, poetry & more.

🕕 6–8 PM | Doors 5:30
🎟 $20 | RSVP required

Don’t just watch the night glow—BE part of it. 💫

#NuitBlancheToronto #TorontoEvents #CommunityThroughArt
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Last night at @NiaCentre was a whole vibe 🎭✨
We collaged papier-mâché masks with African fabrics in my Reimagining Mask Making Workshop.
August 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Grateful to everyone—virtual & in-person—who joined my 6-week Mixed Media Program 💜

Thank you for creating, sharing, & engaging so thoughtfully.
Huge thanks to @accessartsca for this much-needed pilot & @socialartstudiospace for the accessible space.

#AccessArts #DisabilityArts #BIPOCArtists
August 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🔥 James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time 🔥
My portrait of Baldwin — poet, activist, revolutionary. His words still cut, still heal, still demand we move.

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

#JamesBaldwin #LegacyOfTruth #BlackLiberation #TheFireNextTime
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today’s Alcohol Ink workshop with @accessartsca & @sass had participants boldly trying fresh mediums and techniques! 🎨🔥

🗓 Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐 1-4PM | 📍180 Shaw St
💻 In-person & Zoom | 🎟 Free

Ready for more? Next week: Paper Collage Landscapes! Don’t miss it!
#AlcoholInk #ArtWorkshop #PaperCollage
August 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM