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From Hamilton, With Art: Cesar C. Cordoba

By Sarah Jessica Rintjema
This is the first in a new digital Q&A series by HAMILTON CITY Magazine contributor Sarah Jessica Rintjema in conversation with Hamilton’s visual artists. Mexican-Canadian sculptor, painter and accordion player CESAR CORREA CORDOBA is inspired by Indigenous art traditions from back home. The multidisciplinary artist sculpts uncanny…
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The art of Revival

By Meredith MacLeod
Jerrold and Marta Hewson aim to make their newly opened art store, café, photography studio and event space on Cannon Street East near Ottawa a hub for ‘creative disruptors.’ It might be hard to immediately see the silver lining in being struck by a car while crossing…
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Emerging from eviction at Westinghouse HQ

By Stephanie Vegh
A group of artists have found a new home in studio spaces at the Sanford Avenue North office building after being kicked out of their previous building. But the solution may only be temporary. Many Hamilton artists had grimly anticipated the hollowing-out of downtown creative spaces and unjust…
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PRIDE Q+A: The colourful world of Hexe Noire

By William Vipond Tait
Drag queen extraordinaire Hexe Noire has been showcasing her work in Hamilton for more than six years. Noire is acting “Mother” to Hamilton’s alternative drag house, the “Haus of Noire,” founded in 2018. She has been chosen as The Hamilton Spectator’s Diamonds Readers’ Choice Award’s as best…
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Queen of three dimensions

By HCM
Katya Neklyudova has one of her stereoscopic photos featured in a book published by Queen guitarist Brian Ma Hamilton resident and McMaster University professor Katya Neklyudova, a lifelong Queen fan, has one of her photos published in a book of 3D photography published by Brian May, the…
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Labour’s new stories

By Stephanie Vegh
Tara Bursey, executive director of the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, has shifted the non-profit from a place of permanent exhibits to one built around the views of local artists and the community about the present and future of work. From its start as a hub for…
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