Shantha: During a panel for International Women’s Day, you spoke a lot about community work. What does that look like for you? Violet: Since the beginning of my professional practice, I have been working towards a world where my art and activism melt together as one. Thankfully these days I can say this is true.…

Devyani Saltzman has broken a lot of ground in Canada’s arts and culture scene—a founding curator of Toronto’s Luminato, the first woman of colour to hold the position of Director of Public Programming for the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Director of Literature at Banff before that. Now, working beyond our borders for the first…

There is usually a strong gender divide; women participate, while men prefer not to touch Highlighted by Najmabadi, the role of mirrors in Qajar art suggestively asserts the viewer to assume a participatory role. As the figures in the paintings from this period possess strong outward gazes, mirrors in the image are positioned such that…