Chantal Gibson Writer-Artist-Educator

@ chantalgibsonartist Vancouver BC

@ chantalgibsonartist Vancouver BC

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Where Visual and Literary Art Meet

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How She Read, Caitlin Press, 2019.

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with/holding, Caitlin Press, 2021.        

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Now from 3rdThing Press, Seattle

Joy has a Sound: Black Sonic Visions

An anthology of Black art, poetry, prose, scores, scripts and silences

This anthology is a poly-vocal, visually stunning answer to the question, What are the sounds of community and how they are handed down? A home for Black art and culture in Seattle’s Central District, with this anthology Wa Na Wari makes a home for the essays, poetry, scores, scripts and silences of the Black poets, musicians, artists and scholars assembled by editors Rachel Kessler and Elisheba Johnson to wonder about the time-traveling, place-making power of sound.


Contributors:

  • Anastacia-Reneé   
  • Kamari Bright
  • Thione Diop
  • Mary Edwards
  • Rachael F.
  • Aricka Foreman
  • Rell Be Free
  • Amir George
  • Chantal Gibson
  • Walis Johnson
  • JusMoni
  • Anaïs Maviel
  • Larry Mizell Jr.
  • Okanomodé
  • Christina Sharpe

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Recent News: 3M National Teaching Fellows 2021

Chantal Gibson is an award-winning teacher and nationally acclaimed artist and writer whose anti-racism and decolonizing work is making an impact in her classrooms and in schools and cultural institutions across Canada.


A self-described teacher-artist, Gibson’s pedagogy of kindness, inclusion and human-centred teaching practices are motivated by recollections of her own classroom encounters with anti-Black racism as an undergraduate student. As classroom citizens, Gibson’s students are asked to grapple with cultural or societal issues related to their interests....


As an artist-scholar, Gibson has reached national prominence. Her poetry book, How She Read (Caitlin, 2019) challenges the colonial classroom and the representation of Black women across the Canadian cultural landscape. Now on secondary and post-secondary school readings lists, it won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian woman, and the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC).


Gibson's Historical In(ter)ventions series of black threaded altered book sculptures challenge systemic racism in Canada, highlighting the omission of Black voices. Shown in libraries, museums and galleries, and most recently the Senate of Canada, her work asks Canadians to consider the "why" behind equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives.

About the Award

The 3M National Teaching Fellowship was created in 1986 by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) to recognize exceptional teachers in post-secondary education. Every year, the fellowship celebrates 10 university and college educators who show leadership in enhancing post-secondary education and a sustained dedication to undergraduate education. Winners become lifetime members of the society, a national organization working to advance teaching and learning in higher education.


See Maclean's Article April 12, 2021

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un/settled at SFU Downtown Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2021

Written by: Linda Kanyamuna, SFU Student


Since November of 2020, Vancouverites have been consuming the resilience, energy, and beauty of Black womanhood through visual art in the form of a 240 foot photo-poetic art installation un/settled. The piece, which resides at the intersection of West Hastings and Richards Street occupying SFU Belzberg Library’s large windows, embodies Blackness and everything that celebrates Black creativity. 


The artwork features stunning poetry written by writer and academic Dr. Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, and portrait imagery of artist-educator Chantal Gibson. On February 10, both Black creatives, along with SFU Belzberg head librarian Ebony Magnus, shared dialogue for upholding Black voices through art in an enticing panel that aimed to unpack the presence of Black bodies in urban public spaces...

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Upcoming Events 2022

SFU Keynote

Altered Book Workshop

Poetry Workshop

Designing for Difference

2022 Symposium of Teaching and Learning at SFU: (Re)connecting Through Conversation

Thursday May 19th 10:30am.

Poetry Workshop

Altered Book Workshop

Poetry Workshop

BC Writers Summit

Online Exploring Graphic Poetry Workshop

   Tuesday May 17th at 7pm. 

Altered Book Workshop

Altered Book Workshop

Altered Book Workshop

Kid's Take Over 

Youth altered book workshop

Vancouver Art Gallery

Thursday May 5th at 4pm. 

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

Kid's Take Over 

Group Exhibition

Vancouver Art Gallery

April 15 to September 11, 2022

Open Space Victoria

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

Chantal Gibson discusses "The Art of with/holding" from her latest poetry collection with/holding. 

Saturday April 30 at 7:00pm.

Poetry Workshop

Vancouver Art Gallery

Poetry Workshop

Planet Earth Poetry Victoria

Graphic Poetry Workshop

   Saturday April 30 10:30am. 

Poetry Reading

In/Verse Vancouver

In/Verse Vancouver

Planet Earth Poetry Victoria

Poetry Reading & Open Mic

   Friday April 29 at 7pm. 

In/Verse Vancouver

In/Verse Vancouver

In/Verse Vancouver

Online Poetry Reading and conversation.  

Sunday March 12 at 2pm. 

MOA Artist Talk

In/Verse Vancouver

MOA Artist Talk

Award-winning Vancouver poet Chantal Gibson joins Chase Keetley to discuss her latest poetry collection with/holding. 

Saturday January 22 at 1:00pm.

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

In Conversation, 2021 Massey Lecturer Esi Edugyan speaks about her latest non-fiction work with artist, poet and author Chantal Gibson. 

Tuesday October 19th at 7:30pm. 

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Poetry Bash. Hosted by poet and award-winning author Aislinn Hunter, the lineup includes some of the most talked-about poets in Canada today.

Friday October 22nd at 8pm.

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Vancouver Writers Festival

Award-winning Vancouver poet Chantal Gibson joins Lawrence Hill to discuss her latest poetry collection with/holding. 

Saturday October 23 at 10:30am.

CBC Spark Interview

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Social media platforms benefit from  the intersection of race and capitalism.

Conversation and poetry reading 

 CBC Radio · Posted: Oct 01, 2021 

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Online Reading from with/holding 

On Edge Reading Series for FALL 2021.
Tuesday, OCT 26, 2021 at 6PM PT


Thresholds: Map20

Poetry Reading: ECUAD

Thresholds: Map20

20th Anniversary of Dionne Brand's 

A Map to the Door of No Return


Digital gathering November 3-6, 2021 

www.maptothedoorat20.com 


un/settled SFU Downtown

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

un/settled Photography and poetry installation with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek & Ebony Magnus. SFU Belzberg Library Nov. 2020 - Nov. 2021 

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

TYRANNY brings together a group of contemporary artists who in unique ways confront dominant cultural narratives in the work they make.

July 15, 2021 - ongoing

Vancouver Art Gallery

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Senate of Canada, Ottawa

Where do we go from here?

Group exhibition Vancouver Art Gallery

Dec, 2020 - June 2021

Senate of Canada, Ottawa

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

Senate of Canada, Ottawa

Stolen Identities, by Winnipeg painter Yisa Akinbolaji, and Who’s Who in Canada 1927 by Chantal Gibson 

Sept 2020 - June 2021

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

Human Capital... offers insight into the impact of Canada’s immigration policies and history: how it treats humans as capital, and the role it plays in shaping the complex and contested formation of a “Canadian identity.”

Grammar of Loss, Victoria

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

MacKenzie Gallery, Regina

Grammar of Loss, Studies in Erasure  Solo exhibition at Open Space, Victoria January 2020.

2020 Online Exhibition 

Canadian Art June 2020

Thoughts on Liberation, CanadianArt June 17, 2020. 

Black scholars, activists and artists respond to the present moment—Christina Battle, Dionne Brand, Denise Ferreira da Silva, El Jones, Robyn Maynard, Charmaine Nelson and Christina Sharpe.                                   Redacted Text, 2019 in Canadian Art.


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