In Search of Black Women, A Feminist Art Poster Project

Summer 2025

Coordinated by Damen Archard and Dr. Joana Joachim

Canada’s Black visual art and exhibition milieu has largely been led by the work of Black women for several decades. In the Fall semester of 2024, Dr. Joana Joachim offered the course ARTH 381: Feminism in Art. In this course, students considered some of the leading figures in art history as they related to the topic of Black women and art in Canada and beyond. As part of their assignments for this course, students created posters in the style of the Guerrilla Girls with a focus on Black women artists in Montreal art institutions. As part of their research process, students pulled from both the Visual Collections Repository (VCR), here at Concordia University, and from the Artexte collection to research aspects of Black woman’s art history in Montreal.