Saturday Session

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In February, we welcome Chantal Gibson to speak on the work of Sojourner Truth Parsons.

Accessibility

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact learning@cagvancouver.org to book or for more information.

RSVP

No advance registration required.

Biography

Chantal Gibson is a poet-artist-educator living on the lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her practice is grounded in materiality and research creation. Exhibited widely across Canada, her altered historical texts and installations imagine voices silenced by cultural and institutional erasure.

Gibson is the author two poetry collections: with/holding (Caitlin, 2021) and How She Read (Caitlin, 2019), a decolonial critique of the Canadian classroom centering Black womanhood, winner of the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC) and the Pat Lowther Poetry Award (Can).

Recipient of the 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada’s highest award for post-secondary teaching, Gibson teaches in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University.