Call for writers! 📣📜
For Nosy Mag Vol. 5: At Laughter’s Edge, we’re inviting submissions that explore how inherited stories help us process our experiences with tenderness.
We're searching for stories that highlight artists and creatives in the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
See the carousel for themes, guidelines, and submission details, then submit your work at 🔗
🗓️ Deadline: April 15
Questions? [email protected]
We would like to thank the @tontineawards for their support on this project.
A note from the Nosy Mag team 💌
While the website goes offline, the work lives on. We’re archiving our articles so they’ll remain accessible. We’re not done here. Stay nosy, and stay tuned for what’s next.
Let yourself be swept into the undercurrents 🌊
In Radical Acts of Community Care in a Time of Un-Caring, art historian and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, Ania Paluch, speaks with curators Wilam of The Ottawa Trans Library and Lucille Giwa-Amu of Ottawa Fringe about the 2025 Ottawa Fringe Festival’s undercurrents festival that was held at Arts Court in February.
Featuring two exhibitions, Pride: Visual Art Exhibit and under the q’urrent, undercurrents was a patchwork of theatre, music, film and visual art by over 50 2SLGBTQIA+ artists. Wilam’s Pride: Visual Art Exhibit and Lucille’s under the q’urrent came together as a visual archive of queer communities: their resistance, their joy, and the challenges they face in the arts. They explore how these artists have shaped society without recognition.
“Undercurrents are waves that guide the tides, but are not immediately recognized.”
Read Radical Acts of Community Care in a Time of Un-caring at nosymag.ca
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📷 (1) Exhibition view of Pride: Visual Art Exhibit, featuring pieces by Anthony Campbell and Ehren English. Erik Stoplman (@stoplrightnow ) ; (2) Gothbitch. Girlhood. 2024, Sculpture ; (3) Exhibition view of pieces by Aly Joy-Lily McDonald in under the q’urrent.
HOMECOMING is BACK!! 🌞🥳
Join us on Sunday, September 28th, at Beyond the Pale Brewing Company @btpbrewing for HOMECOMING: a free, all-ages art market featuring local makers & musical performances! 🎨🎸🍻🎀🧶
Local music will be brought to you by a surprise guest (deets coming soon!) 💃
Be in the know - Keep an eye out for our vendor announcement and the lineup drop!
👉MARKET DETAILS:
Date: Sunday, September 28th
Time: 1 pm - 5 pm
Location: @btpbrewing - 250 City Centre Ave, Bay 106. The market will take place on the patio and on the main floor, both of which are wheelchair accessible. 👈
Tell your friends to tell their friends 💕 See you soooooon 🥳🥳
Where hair and care meet, creativity and community flourish 💫
Just a few months ago, Crépu: Our DNA (@crepuourdna ) brought Ottawa together for its annual celebration of Black hair — blending art, performance and dialogue into an unforgettable two day event.
In our latest review, Nosy peep Regatu Asefa (@regatuasefa ) reflects on what made Crépu 2025 so powerful and why it continues to be a vital space for Black expression, joy, and care.
Read “Where Hair and Care Meet: Review of Crépu: Our DNA" now on nosymag.ca
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Photos by Curtis Perry (@_curtisperry )
Sink into Saanya Chopra’s art, where the roots ground you and the foliage embraces you! 🌱🪵🌸
In the artwork’s calm, tension lingers. In the latest artist profile, Nosy peep Rama writes about how Saanya (@saanyachopraart ) creates a visual dialogue on identity, translation, the poetics of images and language. 🦷✍🏻
Check out “Saanya Chopra: Living in the Question” live on nosymag.ca!
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Photos courtesy of Saanya Chopra.
Gawk! Stare! Read! Roadkill Paintings (Found Series) is the latest exhibition by Chris Glabb
(@chrisglabb ) on now at the Shenkman Center (@shenkmanarts ) 🐰🚗😱
Has the internet made us numb to violence? Nosy Mag’s Rama (@rr_rama ) caught up with Chris to chat about the ease of witnessing violence online, its aestheticization from art history to social media, and how his images of roadkill speak to the mistreatment of queer, Indigenous, and marginalized peoples. Chris takes images of roadkill found online and screenprints them onto once comforting bed sheets to question how we consume global atrocities and stay lying in our beds.
Catch the exhibition at the LaLande + Doyle exhibition space at Shenkman Arts Centre from Monday, May 12 until Friday, July 4.
Special thanks to Arts Ottawa (@arts.ottawa ) and Nordic Lab - SAW Centre (@saw_centre ) for making this exhibition happen! 👏
👀 Read the latest Q&A at nosymag.ca!: “Slow Down and Gawk: A Conversation with Chris Glabb”
Photos by Marguerite Morin
Dive into the flow of the wave 🌊 In our latest article, Nosy peeps Jess Endress and Marianne Brown dig into Madweyàshkà | Like a Wave, currently on at Âjagemô, the Canada Council Art Bank’s exhibition space on Elgin Street. Spanning 30+ years of Indigenous art and resistance, Madweyàshkà | Like a Wave explores artists’ responses across time to recurring waves of progress and setbacks in Canada.
“Madweyàshkà. The waves hit the shore, the sound as unbroken and inherent as our breathing. The experience of being Indigenous in Canada means some days are spent drowning in a tsunami of chaos,” begins the curatorial statement.
The curator, Olivia Kristoff, and one of the exhibiting artists, also a curator of Indigenous art, Greg A. Hill, generously met with Jess and Marianne to share insights into their work.
Read Ebbs & Flows: Madweyàshkà | Like a Wave at nosymag.ca
🌊 Madweyàshkà | Like a Wave features work by Barry Ace, Carl Beam, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Rosalie Favell, Greg A. Hill, Robert Houle, Nadia Myre, David Neel, Shelley Niro, Edward Poitras, Jane Ash Poitras, Michael Robinson and Jeff Thomas.
It is on until May 19th 2025.
📷 Brandon Clarida Image Services. Courtesy of Canada Council Art Bank.
Latest on Nosy Mag: Dive into the world of Emma Orhun (@emmaorhun )-multidisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and certified trinket enthusiast ✂️📟💫
From AirPod earrings to Tamawatchis, Emma’s practice blends nostalgia with tech, chaos with charm, and curiosity with craft. In conversation with writer Olivia Musselwhite (@orm.arts ), Emma shares her thoughts on making playful things without perfection, working with brands, and why your next big idea might start with a sticker or a fortune cookie slip. 🍓🪡📸
Emma’s creative world is a reminder that experimentation is the point. Art and design can be weird, personal, processed-based and deeply meaningful.
👀 Read the latest article at nosymag.ca
"On Gut Instincts and Curiosity: A Conversation with Emma Orhun"
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