Lectures and Talks
Library Talk: Erica Cardwell and Nya Lewis
Fri Feb 21, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Artspeak, 233 Carrall Street
From left to right: Nya Lewis; Erica Cardwell
Please note that the location of this talk has now changed. It will now be held at Artspeak at 233 Carrall Street. Directions »
If you can no longer attend this talk in person, you’re welcome to join the live stream on Zoom.
Join writer, critic and educator Erica Cardwell in conversation with Curator in Residence Nya Lewis. They will discuss Cardwell’s book Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art (2024).
This talk is free and open to the public, but capacity is very limited. Registration is required.
This event is being presented as part of the Gallery’s Celebrating Black Futures programming. Find out more »
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Erica N. Cardwell is a writer based in Brooklyn and Toronto. In 2021, she was the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Cardwell has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Queer Art Mentorship and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Her work has appeared in print or online for ARTS.BLACK, Art in America, C Mag, BOMB, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, frieze, CULTURED, Artsy and elsewhere. She is a member of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) and is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher Journal. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Nya Lewis (MFA) is a writer, artist and curator. Lewis’ creative practice reflects upon the diversity of Black diasporic experiences and its many forms of expression and is a culmination of centuries of African resistance, love, questions, actions, study and embrace rooted in the theorization of the conditions of Black cultural production. Lewis currently serves as the Director/Curator of Artspeak and Curator in Residence at the Vancouver Art Gallery.