Colonial Print Culture and the Limits of Enslaved Resistance: Examining the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Fugitive Slave Archive in Canada and Jamaica, 

a public lecture, reception and book signing by Dr. Charmaine Nelson

Dr. Charmaine Nelson is a Professor of Art History at McGill University. Her current research project juxtaposes fugitive slave advertisements, portraiture, and genre studies from Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Jamaica, to examine differences in the visual dimensions of creolization between slave minority and slave majority sites of the British Atlantic world.  In 2016, she was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Most recently, Nelson has been appointed the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University for the 2017 – 2018 academic year. Dr. Nelson will present her research in a public lecture as a part of Visual Arts’ Walker Cultural Leader Series programming.

The lecture abstract and presenter's bio is available at Eventbrite.

Location:  Film Theatre, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, 250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

This is a free community event. Reserve your seat with tickets available at Eventbrite.

Groups are welcome! contact Professor Linda Steer lsteer@brocku.ca for orders of more than 10 tickets.

Date: Tuesday Oct. 10 - Tuesday Oct. 31, 2017

Time: Regular visiting hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 1-5 pm

Location: Visual Arts Exhibition Space, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

15 Artists' Common, St. Catharines, ON

Brock Visual Art student Lisette Costanzo presents an exhibition consisting of paintings, drawings and installations that were inspired La Magaria (Italian for witchcraft), metaphysics, and the divine. Exhibition Closing Reception held on Tuesday Oct. 31, 2017 from 5-10 pm in the Visual Arts Exhibition Space, MIWSFPA.