DiasporArt 2022

Celebrating Black History

Gary Weekes | Rhonda Simmons | Aleya Michaud | Reon Hart

Angel Terry | Sydone Chandon | Clyde A. Wray | Daniel Leek

DiasporART: SELF-ACTUALIZATION

An Exhibition which Celebrates the Black Identity in New Brunswick

Gallery on Queen is proud to have an inaugural Art Exhibition in celebration of the Black History Month 2022 hosted by the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance (NBBAA). The New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance (NBBAA) is a non-profit organization that works tirelessly to give voice to those forgotten NB Black Artists and to nurture, promote and protect all future Black Artists.

Black Art has existed since there have been Black settlers living here on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq First Nations, People of the Dawn of Turtle Island . Art offers the potential to travel, migrate and transcend, along with the complex and multifaceted histories of the people on this land.

Photographer Gary Weekes has expressed before that Black History Month should not be just for the month of February, but should be celebrated and given space all year round alongside; Asian history, White history, Indigenous history and others.