MICHAEL FARNAN
Michael Farnan is a multi-disciplinary artist and holds a Studio-based Ph.D in Art and Visual Culture from Western University. He works in a variety of media including painting and drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Farnan's work seeks to disrupt and unsettle Canada’s history of colonialism and the visual representations and discourses surrounding wilderness, nature, and nationhood. Please visit his Website.

​Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth

Michael Farnan, N2N: Widening the Narrows, 2015
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Artist Statement: Originally created for the 2015 exhibition N2N: Widening the Narrows at the Orillia Museum of Art and Art History. The exhibition was curated by Matt McIntosh and Wanda Nanibush. Group show with Michael Belmore, Nadia Myre, Travis Shilling, and Osvaldo Yero.

Recent work by Michael

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Once Were Pilgrims. Performance still w/Adrian Stimson and Lori Blondeau, Saskatoon Nuit Blanche, 2019
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Mapping Canoe Fight. Ink, chalk, charcoal on paper. 12' x 8', 2019
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Canoe Fight: From Reverence to Redress. Video Still, 2019
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. 
EDITORIAL TEAM

CURATORIAL ADVISORS  
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

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

COORDINATING EDITOR
Tariq Hassan Gordon

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Matthew Dawkins, Tariq Hassan Gordon, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, &  Jade Williamson 

VIRTUAL TOURS
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Matthew Dawkins,  Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, &  Michelle Wilson, 

PAST CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Charlotte Egan,, Mackenzie Smith, &  Jade Williamson
This project is supported by the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program:

Thank you to our partners

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