preview the interviews of Witness: Myths of Creation.
Witness: Myths of Creation is a collection of illustrated interviews conducted with visual and performing artists during Rosy’s 2019/2020 residency at the Pfister Hotel, and with additional exhibition support from Concordia University. Click an illustration to learn more about each artist.
“We should not just partake in a throwaway fast fashion environment. What I am doing is so in-depth and I really want people to not just like something and maybe get it, but to understand what’s all going on. This might be handspun, it’s woven and this piece should be an heirloom, not just something we like and then throw away.”
-Shannon Meier, textile artist
Read More“Every person I paint, I sincerely love them. If I agree to paint someone, I’m aware that this person might not last forever in my life, but I’m just really grateful to have had them in that moment.”
-Ariana Vaeth, visual artist
Read More“Our dance... African descended people throughout the diaspora, our dance is social. It’s communal, and I think when it comes to it being in academic spaces sometimes it can be very much stripped of the very humanity that it represents.”
-DeMar Walker, dancer and scholar
Read More“It’s something all of us have access to: that we can all appreciate something that is beautiful. Whether it’s in the two-dimensional arts, or in music or food with the culinary arts, or dance or theater. All of us have the ability to contribute to culture as well.”
-Heidi Parkes, hand quilter
Read More“It just feels like time and space just dissipate and there’s nothing left except you and this idea, and you’re just letting it happen. That’s the most important thing for me and I protect that time, that space, with fire basically because it’s one of the most important aspects of my life to tell you the truth.”
-Bryon Cherry, writer and musician
Read More“It’s an experience of yourself. It’s a way to see the world and really see it intimately with yourself and no other person in the privacy of your own heart and your own mind and your own soul.”
-Bela Suresh Roongta, artist and writer
Read More“As much as I draw from my own personal experiences and my own depressive nature at some times, it also stops me. And that’s where I need the community to help me as well.”
-DakotaSkye Bowen, visual artist
Read More“Being a white guy, there’s a lot of stumbling blocks involved with playing blues music. What I struggled with was seeing so many white musicians around me playing blues music who were so completely oblivious to the irony of white people playing blues music.”
-Misha Siegfried, musician and composer
Read More“You can always do something else, nothing is permanent. So my advice to younger artists and people who feel like they don’t know where to start is [that] you just have to start at the beginning.”
-Sarah Braden, visual artist
Read More“The fact that he took an hour, an hour and a half out of his day, it changed my life. And you just don’t really realize just by taking the time to encourage and listen to young people what you can do… and you can change lives.”
-Geoff Myers, dancer
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