ABSTRACT
Black Women Artists in Canada: A
Documentation and Analysis of the 1989 Exhibition Black Wimmin--When and Where We Enter
Alice Ming Wai Jim
1996
This thesis examines the entry of Black women
artists into the Canadian art scene during the late eighties by focusing on the exhibition
Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter which was the first in Canada to feature exclusively
the work of Black women artists. It will discuss the social and cultural contexts from
which the project originated providing a literature review of Black Canadian art history
and an examination of anti-racist activism in the arts and Black feminist thought in
Canada. Using post-colonial theory to analyze the exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where
We Enter as a "creative" text attempting to effect agency for Black women
artists in Canada, this study ultimately functions as critical analysis and art historical
documentation of the exhibition Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter, its artists and
their work.
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