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The Moving Art Gallery highlights Black women in the arts with GirlShow

By Shireen Agharazi-Dormani on September 29, 2022

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With art, you’ll never run out of combinations of emotions and ways to express them to create a masterpiece. It’s something the viewer will interpret based on their own life, but also the artist intended it to be seen through a specific lens. Regardless, art is there for all.

Teaming up with music event series Expressions, The Moving Art Gallery holds the door open for all art fans in the Ottawa-Gatineau area to the first annual GirlShow at Dayvan Studio on Oct. 1, 2022, from 5–10pm.

Sandra Ngenge Dusabe is a painter, the curator of GirlShow and the founder of The Moving Art Gallery, which she launched in 2020 and since then has organized virtual events to shine a light on Black women in the arts. She works as the Programming and Cultural Developer at non-profit music presenter Debaser and is currently working on her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa.

GirlShow poster. Photo provided.

“GirlShow is the first in-person group art show presented by The Moving Art Gallery, an arts community which centres Black and female visual artists,” says Dusabe. “We believe in decentralizing the way art is exposed in the nation’s capital, by making it accessible and casual in order to reach a bigger audience. In this show, viewers can expect to see incredible artwork in person, accompanied with music from talented local DJs.”

The exhibit spotlights artists from Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto, each demonstrating their styles through various mediums. There’s digital work by Zandra Jack (she/her), Alice Aterman (she/her), and Bliss Mutanda (all pronouns). Dorota Babiakova (she/her) will be presenting oil on canvas, as will Meghan Blaze (she/her), who will also show acrylic on paper. Thirsta Sémajuste (she/her) will showcase works in India ink on paper, Emily Lombardo (she/her) presents sculpture, and Brooke Shaw (she/her) will bring poetry and photography to the show.

“GirlShow was formed out of an idea; what it looks like to make art like a girl?” says Dusabe. “After a proposition from fellow artist and peer DJ Seiiizi, I extended an invitation to womxn art makers who I admire to be part of this project, focusing on those who inhabit the intersection of Blackness and womanhood. This show aims to gather people of all backgrounds and walks of life to view art, in a fun and casual way.”


GirlShow takes place on Oct. 1, 2022, at Dayvan Studio, 1417 Cyrville Rd, from 5–10pm. Attendees can register for free via Eventbrite.

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