Fats Patrol (Fathima) is an Indian-Canadian artist born and raised in the Middle East. Her work is a study of symbols and semiotics and our drive to make sense of the world through mythology, folklore and storytelling. A 3rd culture kid who has spent most of her life torn between religious and cultural value systems …
Nazli Nahidi, Mural Routes Program Assistant, interviewed artist Marg Cresswell in May, 2019. Marg is an award-winning muralist who spent her final year of study in Florence, Italy. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1994 and worked as a muralist for several art studios in Toronto, including for muralist Frank Stella. In …
Happy St Patricks Day! From Michael Cavanaugh, project organizer and one of the mural artists who represented ancestral history and story in the 2015 ‘Neighbourhood of Nations’ mural in St James Town, Toronto: Thinking today of my great-great-grandfather Neil Harkin who came to Canada from Ireland on a coffin ship in 1847. His brother Edward’s name …
