When my twins were three months old we spent a week the Mothra artist residency at Gilbraltar Point on Toronto Island where parent-artists work alongside their children. It is an experiment in art making and care, where childcare and art are not separate but in relationship.
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Alaska Robotics Mini-Con: A Tiny Convention and Comics Camp in Juneau, Alaska
This spring I went to Juneau, Alaska, Tlingit territory for a comics camp and mini con.
Laskeek Bay Artist in Residence
Spent a week on Limestone Island in the K’uuna Gwaay Conservancy drawing with seabird researchers and circumstantial whale researchers with the Laskeek Bay Conservation Society.
Comics and Medicine Conference, Seattle June 2017
I presented my comic, “Queer in Common Country,” from the book The Remedy, at the Comics and Medicine Conference in Seattle, Washington.
TSG: Come Together, Gladstone Hotel
That’s So Gay (TSG): Come Together June 8th – August 17th 2016 A group show celebrating new works by LGBTTI2QQ artists curated by Syrus Marcus Ware. The 2016 subtitle (Come Together) refers to many things: a call to action and activism during a year that has witnessed unprecedented coverage of cross-movement building amongst Indigenous, Black and POC Two-Spirited and LGBTTI2QQ … Read More
Calgary
The Graphic History Collective travelled to Calgary to present our new book, Drawn to Change at Congress. This is a short travel comic on my impressions of Calgary. More information: Calgary downtown vacancy rate moving towards 25% | CBC June 1, 2016 Evictions and the Right to Housing: Experience from Canada, Chile… | Book ‘We … Read More
Show at La Galleria D’Arte Miranda Gallery, Ravenna, Italy
Bill’s Spanish Civil War Chronology
This chronology is from some letters Bill wrote to Lee Burke and Wally Dent of the Veterans of the International Brigades, MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion of Canada. The following dates are approx. correct and are from a very incomplete diary I tried to keep while in the Basque country. July 19. 5pm Ar. Portugalete. Outer Harbor … Read More
Tougher than Jack London
The following is a story Bill tells about hopping freight from Halifax to Sioux Lookout on his way to join the Relief Camp Workers in BC. It is an excerpt from an interview Bill Williamson did with the London Imperial War Museum in the early 1990’s. Anyways, the upshot was I was going west to … Read More
Bill Williamson’s Photographs
I believe many of the following photos were taken by Bill Williamson during his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. They are all housed in the National Archives and Library of Canada in the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion Collection. You can find most of these photos online under the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion Collection Arrangement Structure. I have included the National … Read More