About Canadian Art Junkie:
I’m a Canadian and I’m a junkie for the visual arts.
The site has been online since 2011, featuring painting, photography, illustration and other visual arts from Canada, and from around the world.
The painting on this page, by Emily Carr, a favourite, is the quintessential example of art that many Canadians grew up with. Today, the selection goes well beyond Canada’s still-beloved Group of Seven.
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About Me: I’m a journalist, traveler and art & music lover. I grew up in Canada, trained in Chicago, lived/worked in the Toronto area and now live half-time in Collingwood, the beautiful centre of south Georgian Bay.
I have curated visual arts here on Canadian Art Junkie since 2011 and post occasionally to my personal blog Colder by the Lake. I am an accredited facilitator for Amherst Writers and Artists, and for the Writers Collective of Canada, which run not-for-profit writing workshops.
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*Re Emily Carr’s painting, originally titled Indian Church (above).
In May, 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario, which holds the piece, re-hung the painting with a new name because the word “Indian” causes pain, the AGO said.
The new name Church at Yuquot Village references the British Columbia Indigenous community where the church was located.
A CBC piece about the name change is here.
Image credit: Emily Carr, Church In Yuquot Village, 1929. Oil on Canvas. Bequest of Charles S. Band, Toronto 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I love the paintings you display…I’ll check it out more when I have time!
I will be going to Mexico shortly and there are a number of Canadian artists I will be posting about from there (as well as others).
Great, I will watch for your posts, and have a good trip.
I’ve added your site to a rotating monthly blog recommendation on my site. I love your dedication to covering the arts.
Jane
Thank you, very much appreciated. If you ever have a suggestion of an artist or gallery or event, please let me know.
Wonderful concept I will be sure to follow and learn!
Thanks for visiting. (I love your photos)
Hello from N. Ireland! Love your work so much!
Hi Mosartpage, very much appreciated. You run a good blog yourself!
Yeah! Creative bloggers united!
You have great content and I am really happy that I found your blog with so much Canadian art! (I was looking for one for quite some time) I’ll go through your awesome posts to find artful gems (I mean there are so many to choose from!)
😀 keep it up!
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and to comment. I’m glad you found The Junkie. Come back any time. I really appreciate any suggestions you may have, as well.
heya boomeron
just wondering if you’ve heard word on the versatile blogger award that irma nominated you for. how’d you fair? well i hope!
i haven’t been very busy with any visual arts lately but i’ve started taking voice lessons to compliment my poetry voice. it’s like a skylight is opening above my forehead with each lesson!
wishing you a merry Christmas, michelle
http://michellecfecit.wordpress.com/
Good morning (just about still…!)
Thank you so much for stopping by and liking my “Intimacy” collection. I’m still very new and ’emerging’ as an artist – a bit of a late bloomer, I guess you could say! All the ‘likes’, comments, and visits to my blog displaying my little pieces are so encouraging.
I very much look forward to perusing your postings in more detail over the coming weeks and months. I’m excited that I have some new shows tentatively booked already for next year!
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and liking my recent post: ‘The Lavenders’. I can already see that I will enjoy and be greatly inspired by the work shared here. I will be back!
Thanks, I really like that poem.
Thanks for stopping by 20 Lines A Day and placing a like beneath my First Impressions. I’ll enjoy meandering through your own blog now. 🙂
Any time! I think your posts are delicious.
Why thank you professor, glad you enjoy it. Welcome anytime! (BTW, I actually know the Lehigh Valley, nice place)
Great website! I might be not from Canada, but I definitely adore the warpedness of the images. Good job!
Thanks for visiting my blog – glad you enjoyed my photo. I like this site lots! I’m gonna have to poke around here more… eesh, art is so awesome. 😉
So glad I now know you’re here!
I was disappointed when Ken Thomson’s Group of 7 collection was moved from the Bay gallery on Queen St. It was so accessible for public to see.
I loved the Group of 7. Toronto also offers alot of outdoor public art that are permanent works. Have you blogged on any of this.
On my blog, I’ve written and linked to stuff in Vancouver with a cycling theme. However City of Vancouver has over 500+ pieces of permanent outdoor art. And then there’s more out in the suburbs!
Maybe I’ll get around to Calgary. They’re still evolving, in my opinion.
Keep on blogging!
Hey Jean – I’ve been to your blog, it’s great. (I especially love the section on Prague, one of my all-time favorite places). Your point about the Ken Thomson collection is so true. I also wanted to tell you that the curator of the big exhibition of Canadian art that’s going to take place in Massachusetts in 2012 spoke in Toronto recently, and someone asked her which cities she thought were actively on the edge in art. She said Calgary, so your comment about that city is pretty astute as well. Thanks for taking the time to visit and leave your thoughts. Really appreciated.
Essays like this are so itmporant to broadening people’s horizons.
thanks for the heads up on the competition for emerging artists. don’t think i can submit anything though, sounds like there’s a time limit as to how fresh your emergence is!!
i’ve yet to break surface in the art pool. not drowning yet though!
michelle
http://michellecfecit.wordpress.com/
So still keep me posted. I’m rooting for you.
Hi Irma – Thank you very much. I’m honored. I’m a newish blogger and I will have to prep!! I very much appreciate your nomination.