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
You may remember I was bowled over by your Blog after you were Freshly Pressed. Ever since, an email from the Canadian Art Junkie is always eagerly opened and I have had a great deal of pleasure – if nothing else – from my visits. So, when I was awarded the ABC (Awesome Blog Content) Award recently I immediately thought of your site, and I’ve nominated you – I hope you don’t mind?
Follow this link, I think:
https://thewanderlustgene.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/the-abc-of-me/
Ciao
Wow, thank you so much. I certainly do remember, and I love your blog. Those are extremely kind words, and I appreciate your support. Congratulations on your award. That’s very appropriate. I will also reply on your blog.
Great site! Looking forward to catching your upcoming posts. Anton
Thanks very much Anton. I’ll be visiting yours as well.
Hi there,
Thanks for stopping by my blog http://reflectionsofchina.wordpress.com/ and for the likes, they are appreciated :)…This connection has now given me the opportunity to look through your blog and it’s great!…Loving the artwork
Very glad to meet you, and will be watching your gorgeous photography too.
Thank you kindly for the visit!
I find that the best thing that comes out of a visit to my blog (best thing for me, that is), is that I get to learn about another web project, I get to read another blog. So, here I am, and I see myself spending a lot of time reading all these wonderful posts about art.
XX.
Glad you stopped by, then. Thank you.
Hi, thanks for popping by and drawing my attention to your lovely art blog. I’m sure to go a-hunting in that useful visual archive you’ve got. All the best.
I appreciate your visit here. Thanks.
Thank you so much for liking my blog today! What an encouragement! I love your blog too! I will try to link to it in my future posts.
Thanks Anita, left a comment on your blog, too. Love it.
Wow, you sure manage to find some fabulous stuff! Things I could never have imagined. I’m so heartened to know there is still a great deal of originality out there, since so much nowadays seems to be purely derivative. Thanks for ferreting out all this wonderful work! (Oh yeah, and thanks for the “like” on my blog)
Thanks, that’s very encouraging to hear. I think, though, that this blog benefits from the fact that so much Canadian art is undiscovered. And so much of it is fabulous. I’m glad you took the time to comment. (And I love your horses)
I just discovered your blog. As a canadian recently moved to London (not the one in Ontario of course…) I found it very hard to keep track of what is happening in Canada. I am glad to have found some help from you. Cheers.
Well I hope you find a little of what you’re looking for here, and thank you for stopping by.
I just love the art you post! So much art is yet to be found within this world, but your blog is highlighting all of it! I will be visiting often! I am based in fashion and am the “Stitch Mode Blogger of stitchmode.wordpress.com
Thank you! I so enjoy every visitor, and love getting feedback. I went to your blog and loved the post on buildings. Beautiful photography.
Thank you ever so much! I am very glad to hear that you love my photography – my camera is only an Olympus 12mp, but on that particular day in London – it decided to play nice and gave me some great results. I will be checking new posts on your blog too! 🙂
I love this blog!!
I am so glad you found it, then. Enjoy and explore and thank you very much for your comment!
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and liking my recent post about Swanage. From what I’ve seen of your blog, I’ll be sure to visit again.
MS
Great, visit anytime!
I sure will! Added you to the list of blogs I follow!
Thanks boomerontario for visiting my blog. Explored your website and I enjoyed reading the recent entries. Will definitely return for more….
Great, thanks for stopping by here.
Hi boomerontario! Thank you for visiting my blog “Reflections” and liking my post “The Art of Veil Painting …” … I’m thrilled that my work caught your eye. I’m a Canadian artist living in Ontario and have been sitting on my veil paintings for a few years now waiting for an opportunity to “get them out there.” This blog is another attempt at doing so. … Thanks again for visiting. … Be well … Dorothy 🙂
Hi, Thanks for the ‘like’ on my blog. Here is one Canadian artist that I like:
http://destructivetesting.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/artist-of-the-day-stephen-b-macinnis/
thanks, Mike
Thanks, always intrested in finding new artists. I had not heard of him. Appreciate you taking the time.
I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. There aren’t that many Canadians…that you share the podium.
http://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com/my-award-picks/
I’ll be in Vancouver soon to revisit some of the great art work there.
I’ve also posted this message on your awards-picks page: Wow, thank you so much for nominating The Canadian Art Junkie. Very much appreciated. I will be posting back on it in the next few days. I also love your blog picks! And your blog
Thanks for liking my post. Nice and very interesting blog. I’m following it now, I don’t want miss your new posts!
Thanks Nuno, I appreciate your supoprt.
glad to see someone championing some homegrown art, from the canadian soil, with an emphasis romantic sort of spirit, i’ll be sifting through this blog often, thanks for collecting it all 🙂
Thanks! And as you sift, please feel free to make suggestions. Appreciate the support and there’s so much more to explore
instant notification is the reason i’m replying so quick 😉
there’s way to much to explore! exciting, isn’t it?