As part of The Stonecraft Symposium’s To be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive, Carleton University Art Gallery is hosting a Henna Party with Cultural Mediations PhD candidate and artist, Pansee Atta whose work in this exhibit explores the unstated queerness inherent in henna practice. This workshop includes a talk on the history of and contexts for henna and mehndi body-art practices, a guided demonstration and an audience Q & A on Thursday, November 19th at 4:00 p.m.
Please register in advance here. For more information, please consult CUAG’s website here.
Co-curators Anna Shah Hoque and Cultural Mediations PhD candidate, artist and curator, Cara Tierney, discuss the theme of queerness in diaspora and highlight several artists whose work reflect on these ideas here.