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March 26, 2025 @ 7:30 pm ADT This is a free event and open to the public ASL and live automatic captions will be available Join panellists Mary McCarthy Brandt, Thandiwe McCarthy, Aleya Michaud, Harvey Amani Whitfield, and David Woods for a riveting conversation about the long history of Black communities in the Maritime Provinces. This panel discussion is organized in conjunction with Hidden Blackness: Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901), the first major exhibition of the artist’s work ever presented in Canada. Born in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Bannister was a self-taught, nineteenth-century, African American/Canadian painter of the Barbizon school known for pastoral landscapes and seascapes. In 1876, Bannister’s painting Under the Oaks (now lost) won the bronze medal (first place) at the Centennial Exposition Art Exhibition in Philadelphia, thus making him the first artist of African descent and the first Canadian to win a major art prize in North America. Hidden Blackness: Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) is organized and circulated by the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, and the Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS). It was made possible thanks to generous funding from the Government of Canada and Mount Allison University. It features loans from the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New Brunswick Museum, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, as well as the private collection of Marilyn Sandford. PACART is the exclusive transportation provider of the exhibition. For more information about the exhibition visit owensartgallery.com/bannister