Black Artists' Networks Dialogue - BAND

Black Artists' Networks Dialogue - BAND Black Artists' Networks In Dialogue (BAND) is a charitable org dedicated to supporting, documenting and showcasing Black artists in Canada and internationally.

Temporarily at 401 Richmond St W. in suite LL108

THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 ✨Join us for Where the Work Is Held: Jamaican Art, Memory Work & Black Cultural Stewardship,...
09/15/2026

THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 ✨
Join us for Where the Work Is Held: Jamaican Art, Memory Work & Black Cultural Stewardship, a conversation with Rianna Jade Parker and Dr. Julie Crooks, moderated by SA Smythe, at BAND Gallery.

How are Caribbean stories, visual arts, cultural histories, and futures held and carried forward?

At the centre of the conversation is Arts Jamaica Archive, an ambitious initiative led by Parker to document and preserve the histories, collections, and visual cultures that have shaped modern and contemporary Jamaican art. Over the last five years, Parker has gathered hundreds of rare materials and ephemera, including the complete collection of Arts Jamaica magazine, published between 1982 and 1986.
Together, Parker, Crooks, and Smythe will consider Jamaican visual art, Black/Caribbean archival practice, and how art histories are held across homes, studios, collections, community spaces, archives, and institutions—and preserved for generations to come.

Saturday, September 19 · 2–4 PM
401 Richmond St. W, Suite 128

Free to attend. RSVP via the link in bio/eventbrite.

Presented by the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis in partnership with Arts Jamaica Archive, and hosted by BAND Gallery.

Help bring BAND's permanent home to life. 🏠We're raising $150,000 in 90 days toward the remaining work needed to prepare...
08/22/2026

Help bring BAND's permanent home to life. 🏠
We're raising $150,000 in 90 days toward the remaining work needed to prepare 19 Brock Avenue for opening. After sixteen years of exhibitions, artist support, and community building, Black Artists' Networks in Dialogue is completing Toronto's future museum-grade home for Black Canadian contemporary art.
Donate if you can. Share. Any amount adds up. Every contribution carries it home. We are grateful for the growing community that makes BAND home.
🎨 Donate: gofundme.com/f/19-brock-ave-is-almost-ready-its-waiting-for-you

Join us next week for a closing conversation with BAND’s artist in residence, Precious Lovell, in conversation with José...
08/18/2026

Join us next week for a closing conversation with BAND’s artist in residence, Precious Lovell, in conversation with Joséphine Denis.

Tuesday, August 25
6:00–7:30 PM
📍 401 Richmond Street W, Suite 128
🔗 RSVP : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-dialogue-precious-lovell-tickets-1997449627606?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=bd766e80b1&mc_eid=UNIQID

Precious will discuss the research and making of her new warrior shirt honouring Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman in 18th-century Montréal who attempted to escape enslavement and was later accused and convicted of setting the 1734 fire that destroyed the merchant quarter. Whether she set the fire remains contested, but her resistance has endured.

The work is the 19th piece in Precious’s ongoing Warrior Women of the African Diaspora series, begun in 2009.

Join us to learn more about the series and the research, travel, and making behind Precious’s work honouring women of African descent who have fought for freedom and empowerment.

Timothy Yanick Hunter is one of the artists featured in A Kind of Order at Union Station. Visit his work in the West Win...
06/25/2026

Timothy Yanick Hunter is one of the artists featured in A Kind of Order at Union Station. Visit his work in the West Wing.

Through archival photographs, ephemera from obscure corners of the Internet, overlaid with shards of music and spoken recordings, Timothy creates living mélanges, invested in alternative modes of making and thinking about memory, temporality, and the unknowable facets of existence.

Cross Section (2026) looks downward to the subsurface as a shared field of circulation, where what is treated as extractable keeps rerouting relations. Across six prints and a monitor, the image field is built from magnified soil, larvae, pebbles, and cropped fragments of scientific language. The ground is not a backdrop but a system: brood chambers, pebble collections, bundled cables, and clipped captions offering different languages for how matter is organized and made to travel.

Timothy Yanick Hunter’s ongoing research treats migration as more than the movement of bodies. Migration appears as ongoing circulation: fragments carried forward, reassembled, and re-tuned, moving through archives, infrastructures, and informal networks of passage.

Timothy’s work is available for sale through Cooper Cole.

A Kind of Order also features the work of Aaron Jones, Hazelle Palmer, and Thato Toeba. This exhibition is presented by Union and sponsored by TD, and remains on view until August 31, 2026. Photo Credit: Spring Morris

We’re pleased to share that BAND has been selected as a recipient of the Black Ideas Grant (B.I.G.) from the Foundation...
06/23/2026

We’re pleased to share that BAND has been selected as a recipient of the Black Ideas Grant (B.I.G.) from the Foundation for Black Communities.

This investment will support an upgraded HVAC system at BAND’s future permanent home at 19 Brock, a critical step toward achieving museum-grade gallery standards.

This kind of infrastructure is foundational to the long-term work of cultural stewardship. It creates the conditions needed to care for artworks and archives, welcome touring exhibitions to Toronto, support artists, and build expanded gallery spaces where community can gather, connect, and realize ambitious visions.

As 19 Brock takes shape, we are grateful to the many people already imagining themselves in this future home for art, memory, and community.

Our deepest thanks to FFBC for joining the many supporters, partners, and community members who continue to believe in this next chapter for BAND.

Learn more about BAND’s vision for 19 Brock and how you can support the capital campaign: https://www.bandgallery.com/19-brock-renovations

Thato Toeba is one of the artists featured in A Kind of Order at Union Station. Visit their work in The Oak Room. An ar...
06/06/2026

Thato Toeba is one of the artists featured in A Kind of Order at Union Station. Visit their work in The Oak Room.

An artist, lawyer, and social sciences researcher, Thato’s practice draws on archives and architectural space to explore themes of power. Working with images in public circulation, their works recontextualize and disrupt the visual scripts of documentary photography through mixed-media photomontage and assemblage.

In the Oak Room Thato’s sculptural collage is built in depth across three layered panels. Cut-outs choreograph the fragments as a gathering of people across different times and places, while silhouette mirrors keep the composition in motion. The mirror reflects the station’s passing bodies and folds us into the work, showing how quickly images travel without context, and how urgently context is sought.

A Kind of Order also features the work of Timothy Yanick Hunter, Aaron Jones, and Hazelle Palmer.

www.bandgallery.com/a-kind-of-order
This exhibition is presented by Union and sponsored by TD, and remains on view until August 31, 2026. Photo Credit: Spring Morris

What an extraordinary evening.Last week, BAND gathered with artists, supporters, cultural leaders, and friends for Dinne...
06/02/2026

What an extraordinary evening.

Last week, BAND gathered with artists, supporters, cultural leaders, and friends for Dinner & Dialogue, a special fundraising event in support of our future House Museum at 19 Brock Avenue.

Hosted in partnership with Ferrotype Collective as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations, the evening brought together a room full of people who believe in the power of art, dialogue, and community. Guests joined us for a thoughtful conversation between Janine Gaëlle and Gaëtane Verna, whose reflections on grassroots cultural institutions, collaboration, space-making, and collective care resonated deeply throughout the evening.

The evening also marked the launch of BAND’s inaugural annual International In Dialogue series, a new program dedicated to creating space for exchange across geographies, practices, and communities. Stay tuned for more.

To everyone who attended, purchased tickets, sponsored tables, donated, volunteered, and helped bring this evening to life: thank you. Your support is helping build a lasting home for Black artists and communities in Toronto.

Special thanks to Ferrotype Collective for celebrating their 10th anniversary in support of BAND, to our partners at Ricarda’s and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, and to Janine Gaëlle and Gaëtane Verna for their generosity, insight, and inspiring conversation.

We are honoured to be building this future together.

📸 Dawit Tibebu

Join BAND in conversation with Thandiwe McCarthy exploring Black arts and cultural spaces, and the ecosystems that susta...
05/28/2026

Join BAND in conversation with Thandiwe McCarthy exploring Black arts and cultural spaces, and the ecosystems that sustain them.

Together, we’ll reflect on the architectures — literal and figurative — of Black Canadian communities, while discussing how we build connected networks and activate spaces collaboratively.

Location: Monica's in Little Jamaica (1553 Eglinton Ave W)
Date & Time: Wednesday June 3 from 6:00 to 7:30pm.
RSVP: https://TalkwithTJMcCarthyxBAND.eventbrite.ca

Thandiwe McCarthy is a seventh-generation African Canadian spoken word poet, writer, public speaker, and culture correspondent for Maritime EDIT magazine. McCarthy is co-founder of the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance, and played a key role in having August 1 recognized as Emancipation Day in New Brunswick. His Still Here Initiative celebrates fifteen multigenerational Black New Brunswick families.

The initiative will launch nationally in August 2026 with a major exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and a book published by Goose Lane Editions. Learn more about the Still Here initiative: https://stillherefestival.ca/

Presented in partnership with Monica’s, with support from CAPF and CIBC.

We are pleased to announce a $200,000 gift from The Michael Young Family Foundation in support of our renovation. This c...
05/01/2026

We are pleased to announce a $200,000 gift from The Michael Young Family Foundation in support of our renovation. This contribution funds the creation of a public garden at the corner of Brock and Noble. Designed for pollinator ecology, community seating, and seasonal art installation, this space serves as a vibrant threshold between the street and the gallery.

This redesigned public realm strengthens our local ecology and provides new opportunities for artists to engage with the public. We are grateful to The Michael Young Family Foundation for their investment in a sustainable cultural landscape for Black arts in Parkdale.

We look forward to welcoming you to this new community space. Share your thoughts on this new development in the comments below.

For CONTACT 2026, BAND is proud to present An Abundance of Plenty by Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu, a work from her...
04/30/2026

For CONTACT 2026, BAND is proud to present An Abundance of Plenty by Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu, a work from her acclaimed CAMO series.

Join us to celebrate the unveiling of BAND’s billboard on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Meet at 460 King St. W at 5:30 PM.

In CAMO, Muriu explores identity, visibility, womanhood, and cultural inheritance through textile, pattern, proverb, and the transformation of everyday objects. Known for her vibrant and often surreal portraiture, Muriu creates striking optical illusions that blend her subjects into richly patterned backgrounds while keeping them powerfully in focus.

An Abundance of Plenty is on view as a billboard at 460 King St. W until May 31, 2026.

Afterward, continue the evening with us as we celebrate CONTACT openings across the city, heading to the opening of A Place of Ours, by Delali Cofie, curated by Emilie Croning (EMC Contemporary), at United Contemporary and Hints of Orange, by Jamaal Owusu-Ansah at The Black Canary.

More details: https://AnAbundanceofPlentyUnveiling.eventbrite.ca

Presented in partnership with CONTACT Photography Festival and 193 Gallery. Documentation: Toni Hafkenscheid.

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