Wednesdays, from 12:30 to 1 pm

Point of View Lunchtime Talks

featuring Allyson Adley, Dr. Mehraneh Ebrahimi, Dr. Ola Mohammed, and Felicia Mings

Meeting in the Lobby

Individuals are invited to experience the exhibitions on their lunch break. A dynamic in-gallery conversation will be held that stems from the interests of our speaker and one of the artworks on view.

February 12, 2025
Point Of View 30-Minute Gallery Talk: An Ocean to Livity
with Allyson Adley

February 26, 2025
Point Of View 30-Minute Gallery Talks: Unfolding Worlds
with Dr. Mehraneh Ebrahimi, associate professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

March 12, 2025
Point Of View 30-Minute Gallery Talk: An Ocean to Livity
with Dr. Ola Mohammed, assistant professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

March 26, 2025
Point Of View 30-Minute Gallery Talks: Unfolding Worlds
with Felicia Mings

 

Allyson Adley develops educational programs that bolsters the work of youth-led and youth-serving organizations that are working within mediums of hip hop, music, and performance. The programs she designs provide enriching arts employment, mentorship, and professional development experiences that help artists build and sustain their practice. For the Toronto iteration of Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity, Adley has been integral in developing the poetic component, inviting poets to co-facilitate the expansion of the Black Breath Archive and to create poetry in response to their experiences.

Dr. Mehraneh Ebrahimi is an Associate Professor of English whose area of specialization encompasses Middle Eastern diasporic writing with an emphasis on aesthetics, ethics, and politics. Ebrahimi is the author of Women, Art and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora (Syracuse UP, 2019) and her forthcoming book project is titled Refugee Literature: Dignity, Agency, & Voice in Iranian Exilic Life Writing.

Dr. Ola Mohammed specializes in interdisciplinary research exploring Black cultural production, Black social life, and Black being as sites of possibility. Her manuscript, “The Black Nowhere: The Social and Cultural Politics of Listening to Black Canada(s),” examines the sonic dimension of anti-Blackness in Canada; her research interests include Black Popular Music, Black Studies, Sound Studies, Diaspora Studies, Performance Theory, and Digital Culture.

Felicia Mings is a curator at The Goldfarb Gallery. She focuses on interpreting and presenting modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on arts of Africa and the Caribbean, along with their diasporas. Mings’ recent curatorial projects include the Toronto iteration of Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity, 2025, Maryam Taghavi: Unfolding Worlds, 2025, Dele Adeyemo’s From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire, 2023, and Meleko Mokgosi: Imaging Imaginations, 2023.