Carnival photographer Ian Grant part of downtown Toronto Group Show
Amira Al Amary stands in the middle of her Danforth Street galle Art of Black History Month extended March By Stephen Weir Although the books on Toronto’s 2018 Black History Month closed yesterday, a Danforth Avenue art gallery will continue to celebrate for a few more days. The Black History Month Visual Arts Exhibition will remain on the walls of the Areej Gallery until March 3 rd . The small, street level gallery is showing and selling photographs and paintings by six artists from Africa, Canada and the Caribbean. All of the works on display explore different aspects of the Black experience from Ethiopia to Canada to Grenada. Grenadian carnival scenes by Ian Grant You can’t miss the Carnival pictures taken by Grenadian Canadian photographer Ian Grant. The framed pictures dominate one whole wall at the Areej Gallery. The dramatic pictures were taken in Grenada at the annual August Spicemas street festival. Grant’s pictures are from both sides o