You can view a gallery of photographs from Charmaine's recent Scotiabank Nuit Blanche exhibit in the Photos Section.

Charmaine will participate as an Independent Project artist in this year’s scotiabank nuit blanche an all-night contemporary art thing, taking place on October 3rd, 2009.



Visit the website at: http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/

Click to read the press release for Beyond the Rhythm: Caribana Art Exhibit, July 23 to August 3, 2009.

Beyond the Rhythm

Charmaine Lurch will be showing at the 7th Annual Savannah Festival of Rhythms - Visual Arts Exhibit in Brampton Sunday July 19, 2009 from 2 PM to 8 PM.

Please join Charmaine along with fellow artists, for a return engagement at the Royal Ontario Museum - “Beyond the Rhythm” Toronto Canada, July 23- August 3, 2009 - produced by the Association of African-Canadian Artists. Website: colour-blind.ca

Inner City Angels and Mariposa In The Schools 40th Anniversary Celebration

Muskoka chair ‘Sometimes Fish are Shy’ designed by Charmaine Lurch

Website: www.innercityangels.ca

Look for Charmaine’s painting Good Hair on Global TV.

http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/globalshows/dakink/index.html

Market Lane’s Annual Evening of African Heritage – Showcase and Presentation

Thursday March 5th 2009 - Painting of Lee Lorch by Ms. Hawk’s grade 4/5 students

Lee Lorch (born September 20, 1915) is a mathematician and was an early civil rights activist, who is currently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at York University in Toronto, Canada

The Kelowna Immigrant Society First Annual Black History Month Celebration Writing/Talking Dubbing! Kelowna Library – Glenmore & Matheson Elementary ES Visual Arts presentation, Feb 28, 2009

Website: http://www.kelownais.com/popup.htm

Story Staircases: The art of telling tales
What: Arts Education Event
Where: Queen Victoria Public School, 100 Close Avenue Toronto (Parkdale)
When: Wed Nov 19, 2008 from 6:30 to 9pm

Story Staircases is a stunning art piece found on five stairwells at Queen Victoria Public School that will be unveiled to the Parkdale community on Wednesday November 19, 2008. Everyone is invited.

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Charmaine will exhibit at "Roots to Rhythm", a COLOURblind International Art Exhibition which is being held at the Royal Ontario Museum from July 24th through August 4th, 2008. The exhibitition is presented by the Association of African Canadian Artists.

Charmaine will be Exhibiting at FishNet: The Great Lakes Craft and Release Project at Harbourfront Centre on May 2, 2008 from 6 pm to 10 pm.

Toronto, ON – Monday, November 26, 2007

Every Saturday for the last six weeks, 22 grade 4 students from Topcliff Public School in the Jane/Finch community, come to school as they do every other day. This is Saturday, however, and they don’t need to be here. They could be at home watching TV, hanging out with friends or sleeping in. But they are here! And they are excited and ready to engage in something a little different. Along with some of Toronto’s finest artists and teachers, aspiring teachers and filmmakers, these young students are exploring a single idea in a kind of rites of passage interdisciplinary arts experience. The idea is called “the gate,” and it is evolving into a remarkable artistic expression of what that means. Is it about where we come from or where we are going? Is it a passageway or a roadblock? Is it tactile or symbolic? Is it our past or our future? And if it is all those things, how can a ten year old express that artistically through story, art and music? And if we see the gate, what do we do? Do we approach it? Open it? What is on the other side? Where will it take us? One thing we know for sure, it is a magical adventure. We know that because WE created it! Read More...