Category: Arts
Biography of gallery head wins top prize at book awards prize
Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis, which has won the Ottawa Book Award, examines Jarvis’s role in establishing the National Gallery, when it was located on Elgin Street in the 1950s and 1960s.
Jazz mentors use live venue as classroom
Workshops use comics to combat gay bullying
As the “It Gets Better” video campaign against sexuality-based bullying goes viral, queer youth in the heart of Ottawa are using another medium to spur social change and express themselves – comics.