Creative Minds: Erasure Art Collective
Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road, HalifaxBLACKOUT is an interdisciplinary art project that recreates historical slave ads using ‘erasure’ or ‘blackout’—a form of poetry created by erasing words from an existing text to create a visual poem. The project uncovers messages in ads that appeared in local newspapers during slavery—a legal practice of buying...