KM Augustine
@karenmirandaaugustine.com
Ritualistic pop artist | Writer | Sacred death care
Therapeutic art workshops for the bereaved
https://linktr.ee/kmaugustine 🌹Missing my mom🌹
Therapeutic art workshops for the bereaved
https://linktr.ee/kmaugustine 🌹Missing my mom🌹
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Until we can disentangle visibility from institutional co-optation, Black artists like Amy Sherald and Rashid Johnson will continue to be celebrated, but only on someone else’s terms.
Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists?
This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.
hyperallergic.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Until we can disentangle visibility from institutional co-optation, Black artists like Amy Sherald and Rashid Johnson will continue to be celebrated, but only on someone else’s terms.
Scarborough urban farm expanding to help more people grow their own food: "An urban farm that helps address food insecurity in Toronto's east end is about to get bigger and allow more people to grow their own food within city limits"
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Scarborough urban farm expanding to help more people grow their own food | CBC News
An urban farm that helps address food insecurity in Toronto’s east end is about to get bigger, allowing more people to grow their own food within city limits.
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May 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Scarborough urban farm expanding to help more people grow their own food: "An urban farm that helps address food insecurity in Toronto's east end is about to get bigger and allow more people to grow their own food within city limits"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Today! We’ll explore the city’s history with A SCANDALOUS TOUR OF OLD TORONTO!
It’s free as part of Jane’s Walk — just meet at the little clock tower in the Distillery at 3pm and we’ll spend the next couple of hours talking about duels and riots and brothels and corruption.
It’s free as part of Jane’s Walk — just meet at the little clock tower in the Distillery at 3pm and we’ll spend the next couple of hours talking about duels and riots and brothels and corruption.
May 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Today! We’ll explore the city’s history with A SCANDALOUS TOUR OF OLD TORONTO!
It’s free as part of Jane’s Walk — just meet at the little clock tower in the Distillery at 3pm and we’ll spend the next couple of hours talking about duels and riots and brothels and corruption.
It’s free as part of Jane’s Walk — just meet at the little clock tower in the Distillery at 3pm and we’ll spend the next couple of hours talking about duels and riots and brothels and corruption.
Honoured to be bringing @ehimeora.bsky.social to Toronto for a book launch of Spirits Come from Water and her workshop, The Mind Lab, which will hold space for Black caregivers, grievers, and death workers. These events launch the Ancestral Arts Collective: ancestralartscollective.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Honoured to be bringing @ehimeora.bsky.social to Toronto for a book launch of Spirits Come from Water and her workshop, The Mind Lab, which will hold space for Black caregivers, grievers, and death workers. These events launch the Ancestral Arts Collective: ancestralartscollective.com
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Photographer DB Burkeman's Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s
Photographer's Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s - Flashbak
DB Burkeman was clearing out his old bedroom at his mother's house in London when he discovered rolls of film he'd taken between 1976 and 1982. These images from his rediscovered photos tells us the s...
flashbak.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Photographer DB Burkeman's Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s
In a city as culturally vibrant as Toronto, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Led by Black women in the arts, a dynamic movement is redefining creativity, community and cultural stewardship.... www.forbes.com/sites/byrona...
The Black Women Building A Black Arts Movement In Their City
The Black women in Toronto building a Black arts movement in their city
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April 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
In a city as culturally vibrant as Toronto, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Led by Black women in the arts, a dynamic movement is redefining creativity, community and cultural stewardship.... www.forbes.com/sites/byrona...
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Check out our conversation with Sarah Leavitt, author of Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/04... #CanLit
When Colour Seeps In: The Chat with Sarah Leavitt · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
Some books come along and split your heart wide open. Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love (Arsenal Pulp Press) is one of these books. ...
49thshelf.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Check out our conversation with Sarah Leavitt, author of Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/04... #CanLit
Did you know that panic and anxiety attacks are a normal expression of grief? I wrote about my experiences with them after the loss of my mom, what I learned from them and how I coped for @chelbellguild.bsky.social's Life and Death Substack
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lifeanddeathwithchel.substack.com/p/the-anxiet...
The Anxiety of Grief
Panic after a death is normal. Here's how to live with it.
lifeanddeathwithchel.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Did you know that panic and anxiety attacks are a normal expression of grief? I wrote about my experiences with them after the loss of my mom, what I learned from them and how I coped for @chelbellguild.bsky.social's Life and Death Substack
lifeanddeathwithchel.substack.com/p/the-anxiet...
lifeanddeathwithchel.substack.com/p/the-anxiet...
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After a long hiatus due to my own grief, the dead zine is back baby! In this last issue of Season 1 on food, I wrote about the last meal my Dad ate before his death, using meals as rituals for endings and the last meals of those incarcerated on death row. thedeadzine.beehiiv.com/p/the-grief-...
February 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
After a long hiatus due to my own grief, the dead zine is back baby! In this last issue of Season 1 on food, I wrote about the last meal my Dad ate before his death, using meals as rituals for endings and the last meals of those incarcerated on death row. thedeadzine.beehiiv.com/p/the-grief-...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"...the tiny low-lying island of Gardi Sugdub, is the first in Panama to be relocated because of climate change. The government has said they face 'imminent risk' from rising sea levels, which scientists say are likely to render the island uninhabitable by 2050."
![Yanisela still visits the island frequently and says she misses her old house [Credit: BBC]. Profile of woman looking toward the sea. She is in profile.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q244pe3ifdjhgp4vbhjx7cmq/bafkreihtikypggco54axtyv2sy4xwrmlrygq6fksps4ooypoufxz6lyu2i@jpeg)
February 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"...the tiny low-lying island of Gardi Sugdub, is the first in Panama to be relocated because of climate change. The government has said they face 'imminent risk' from rising sea levels, which scientists say are likely to render the island uninhabitable by 2050."
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“Home to Harlem was the first bestselling novel by a Black author in the United States, propelled by white readers fascinated by Harlem’s famed nightlife.” Belinda Edmondson on displacement and belonging in Claude McKay’s landmark novel.
Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem
One of the most striking things about Home to Harlem is that no one seems to be at home in Harlem. Not Jake, the novel’s main character, a Virginia‑born African American migrant to New York; not Ra…
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February 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Home to Harlem was the first bestselling novel by a Black author in the United States, propelled by white readers fascinated by Harlem’s famed nightlife.” Belinda Edmondson on displacement and belonging in Claude McKay’s landmark novel.
Poem: "Kanye West is Not Picasso" by Leonard Cohen via @literaryhub.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Poem: "Kanye West is Not Picasso" by Leonard Cohen via @literaryhub.bsky.social
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The Parkdale Residents’ Association is partnering with BAND Gallery for a Black History Walking Tour of Parkdale
Saturday, 22 Feb, 2 - 3PM
Meet inside the Parkdale Public Library (Queen St West at Cowan Ave.)
#Toronto #BlackHistoryMonth
Saturday, 22 Feb, 2 - 3PM
Meet inside the Parkdale Public Library (Queen St West at Cowan Ave.)
#Toronto #BlackHistoryMonth
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Parkdale Residents’ Association is partnering with BAND Gallery for a Black History Walking Tour of Parkdale
Saturday, 22 Feb, 2 - 3PM
Meet inside the Parkdale Public Library (Queen St West at Cowan Ave.)
#Toronto #BlackHistoryMonth
Saturday, 22 Feb, 2 - 3PM
Meet inside the Parkdale Public Library (Queen St West at Cowan Ave.)
#Toronto #BlackHistoryMonth
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Another life to be remembered in this time:
Alonzo Davis, Artist and Pioneering Gallerist, Has Died
Alonzo Davis, the artist and educator who cofounded Los Angeles's storied African American stronghold the Brockman Gallery, has died at 82.
news.artnet.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Another life to be remembered in this time:
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To kick off Black History Month, one of my absolutely favorite works by artist Jacob Lawrence: Sidewalk Drawings, 1943, which underscores the complexity of Lawrence's singular vision in how it links the joy & exuberance of children drawing with difficult subject matter like war & violence
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
To kick off Black History Month, one of my absolutely favorite works by artist Jacob Lawrence: Sidewalk Drawings, 1943, which underscores the complexity of Lawrence's singular vision in how it links the joy & exuberance of children drawing with difficult subject matter like war & violence
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Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Festive Bird, 1970 #womensart
February 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Festive Bird, 1970 #womensart
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Sonia Boyce’s interest in multi-sensory art and Black women artists is evident in her explosive show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which evokes Afrofuturist and dance club aesthetics.
Step Into Sonia Boyce’s Sensory World
Shimmering with color and sound, her exhibition Feeling Her Way at the Art Gallery of Ontario feels both expansive and enveloping.
hyperallergic.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sonia Boyce’s interest in multi-sensory art and Black women artists is evident in her explosive show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which evokes Afrofuturist and dance club aesthetics.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World, artist audio statement
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www.moma.org/audio/playli...
Jaune Quick-to-see Smith. Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World. 1991 | MoMA
Audio from Collection 1980s–Present. Hear artists' fresh perspectives on their work. Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration wi...
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January 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World, artist audio statement
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www.moma.org/audio/playli...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy
2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"
Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy
2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"
January 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy
2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"
Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy
2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria
2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels
Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria
2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels
January 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria
2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels
Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria
2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels
A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith received institutional support and success late in life www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/28/j...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85
A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life
www.theartnewspaper.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith received institutional support and success late in life www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/28/j...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
War Horse in Babylon, 2005
oil on canvas, 60" x 100" diptych
War Horse in Babylon, 2005
oil on canvas, 60" x 100" diptych
January 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
War Horse in Babylon, 2005
oil on canvas, 60" x 100" diptych
War Horse in Babylon, 2005
oil on canvas, 60" x 100" diptych
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, trailblazing Native American artist and activist, 85
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Native American Artist and Activist, Has Died
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the pioneering artist who mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks, has died.
news.artnet.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, trailblazing Native American artist and activist, 85
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