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AMANDA BOULOS

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Amanda Boulos
Amanda Boulos is a visual artist and educator based in Toronto. Engaging with national narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada, Boulos explores how oral histories undergo constant metamorphoses. Boulos received her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2017 and BFA from York University in 2013. She has shown at Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects, Toronto, ON, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, ON, and Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON and has an upcoming exhibition at Untitled Arts Society, Calgary, AB. Boulos is the winner of the 20th RBC Canadian Painting Competition and will be the Isabel Pope Artist in Residence at NSCAD University, Halifax, NS in fall 2021. She is also a member of a Toronto-based project space the plumb and a programmer for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. For more information, please visit her website.

​ International Women's Day 2021: Go; Rise and Strike

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Mother Carrying Daughter (Yellow Water), 2020
Artist Statement: One of my mother’s life lessons was how to clean myself. At some point I realized that all my pits had the ability to smell, and I was ready for the tender reminder that a daily dose of soap and water will do. My mother’s tips on how to tend to my body come with sweet scents, sometimes more rosy, other times more chemical-y. They come with open palms full of liquid, often glittery, creamy, and sometimes pebbly. They leave me feeling polished, invincible—at least for a little while. A mother’s lesson is hard to forget: it fades, but it always reemerges in the most peripheral parts of the everyday. That’s where it lives, safe from being erased or rewritten.

A special thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council

Recent work by Amanda Boulos

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Hot Pink Heart, Oil on Canvas on Panel, 25" x 28", 2020
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Mother Water, Oil on Panel, 37" x 33", 2019
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Twins, Oil on Panel, 23" x 22", 2019
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In the Morning, Oil on Panel, 42" x 40", 2017
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Jewels For Not, Oil on Panel, 12" x 12", 2018
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Sleepy Dog, Oil on Panel, 23" x 30", 2019


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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