Visual Art
Visual Art
They've abandoned Their comfy-boxes, with the triangles on the tops --
Now, they only sit down here, to feed the pigeons: New friends. But still
They question... wanting to ask, if this is a fool’s paradise, to the nobodies.
Why does it seem so... dull? Maybe, They are just the hangovers.
Ashes, after getting butt-kicked; Leftovers from the autumn...
The Exiting Street Life Study is a longitudinal study examining the transition away from homelessness for 51 young people over the course of a year in Toronto and Halifax. The study was funded by SSHRC and the W. Garfield Weston Foundation and was assisted by Covenant House Toronto, LOFT Community Services, SKETCH, Ark, and Supportive Housing for...
Street-involved youth have many stories. However, the nuances of these stories and the experiences they reflect can become lost amid statistics and stigma about “poverty” and “homelessness.”
The unique experience of the individual may be overshadowed by labels, stereotypes, and assumptions about young people and street life.
Toronto Youth Street...
Edmonton's city hall is home to a new art project called Street Speak. It's a collection of nine paintings that represent the voices of the homeless in words, doodles, pictures and symbols.
If street art is found within the walls of a museum, can we still find something in this vibrant international art movement that can be respected as critical and exceptional art? This exhibition, driven by the street artists themselves, is a distillation of the spontaneity, spirit of collaboration, accessibility and social consciousness from which...