More Caribana Art

On Thursday night I headed down to the Distillery District to see MASK This is exhibtion is bringing a new dimension to the festival. The event was presented by the Association of African Canadian Artists which is a not-for profit organization I always knew Toronto was bursting at the seams with young emerging artist from the African diaspora 24 featured artiststo be exact in this exhibtion; including Joy Andre, Anthonly Ade Gordon , Darryl Ballantyne, Philemon Campbell , Sheldon Colthrust, Kwame Delfish ,Sonia Faruharson, Angela Haynes ,Denice James, Sherman Jones, Darrell Mc Call,a Jason O' Brien, Izzy Ohiro, Nicole Pena, David Vasquez, Izzi Ohiro, Sonia Farquharson, Asha Ruparelia, Ken Daley, Cheryl Rock, Melissa Doldron, Georgia Fullerton, , Claire Carew, Tanya Small , Mark Stoddart, Darlene Strong. My personal favourite is Kwame Delfish's painful and solemn "Blue Devil which depicts the Molasses devil a traditional mas character that represents the worst fate of a cane plantation slave one who has fallen int o a vat of molasses . Check out the website www.colour-blind.ca