Andrea Ritchie

Sep 23, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Andrea Ritchie

There are many ways people are brought into the process of making art. Through my own art practice and experience with producing and participating in socially engaged art projects, I understand that collaboration, participation, and social engagement have the capacity to create transformative experiences and dynamic artwork. Yet, I have felt the edges of collaboration and the discontents of participation.

Sep 22, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Shannon Webb-Campbell |Andrea Ritchie

Mi’kmaw artist Alan Syliboy’s retrospective The Journey So Far, curated by Pamela Edmonds at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (May 9 to August 11, 2024), spanned more than fifty years of work. The exhibition included paintings, collage, photography, music, print, mixed media, video, drums, and guitars and even a commissioned wall mural featuring a great horned serpent with red spots on a yellow spine. “It’s not a typical snake. It’s magic.

Jun 19, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Kate Lahey |Andrea Ritchie

by Kate LaheyA group of over twenty middle school children pour excitedly out of the heavy glass gallery doors as curator Emily Critch, artist Daze Jefferies, and myself make our way toward Jefferies’s first major solo exhibition, stay here stay how stay at The Rooms Provincial Gallery in St. John’s. Jefferies’s joyful giggle whispers through the hard chamber of the building.

Jun 17, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Mariame Kaba |Andrea Ritchie

During a virtual convening hosted last year by Interrupting Criminalization, the organization we cofounded in 2018, abolitionist scholar and geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore offered a provocation central to the question of how abolitionist organizers relate to the state: How do we, as a society, accomplish “big things” with and for people we don’t know or necessarily like?

Apr 23, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Andrea Ritchie

We’re eager to hear from writers, artists, and critics to expand and deepen conversations inspired by the artistic vision of emerging and established artists who are pushing the boundaries of art and culture in the Atlantic. For this open call, we are seeking pitches for features, profiles, and exhibition reviews. We prioritize work that pushes back against white supremacy and colonialism.