Half the Sky: A Roundtable Discussion about Women in the Arts

EVENEMENT EN ANGLAIS. Q&R EN FRANCAIS ET EN ANGLAIS.

EVENT IN ENGLISH. Q&R IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH.

AWARE

AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions works towards making women and non-binary artists of the 16^th to 21^st centuries visible by producing and sharing free trilingual (French/English/Japanese) content about their work on its website. This online resource presently contains more than 1,400 biographical texts and draws up to 180,000 visits per month. AWARE represents a diversity of voices with texts written by around 500 researchers, feminist art historians, art critics, and activists from all over the world. To widely disseminate research on women artists, AWARE also organizes symposia, round tables, and seminars in collaboration with institutions, universities, museums, and non-for-profits in France and all over the world. After more than ten years as a non-governmental organisation, AWARE became an integral part of the Centre Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne in January 2026.

Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex 

The Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex is a searchable, curated database designed to support research, teaching, and exhibitions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour artists, who remain underrepresented in Canadian art institutions. Referencing and building upon the informal networks through which many of these artists have historically been known, the Rolodex facilitates early-stage research and increases visibility in curricula, publications, and exhibitions, addressing ongoing gaps in representation and access. 

Founded in 2021 by professors Jinny Yu, Ming Tiampo, Celina Jeffery, and data curator Felicity Tayler, the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex is supported by an advisory board comprising Analays Alvarez, Amber Berson, Emelie Chhangur, Tammer El-Sheikh, Andrea Fatona, Alyssa Fearon, David Garneau, Andrew Gayed, Linda Grussani, Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon, Roxanne Lafleur, Marissa Largo, Michelle LaVallée, Godfre Leung, Henry Heng Lu, Tak Pham, Cheryl Sim, and Haema Sivanesan.

Carleton Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

The Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) is a research hub based within the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University. Founded in 2005, at a time when cultural studies disciplines were almost exclusively defined by the nation as the organizing unit of analysis, CTCA creates the necessary interdisciplinary connections and networks that increase the impact of transnational research in the Humanities. 

In our current moment of rising xenophobia, nationalism, and closing borders, the need for new intellectual models and histories has made critical global studies one of the most urgent issues of our generation. Though studies of the global have been traditionally rooted in the social sciences, CTCA’s initiatives are focused on thinking through the cultural consequences of globalization and how they have reshaped our world.

Centre Pompidou

Founded nearly 50 years ago, the Centre Pompidou is at once a museum of modern and contemporary art, a public library, and a center for artistic, musical, and industrial creation, grounded in a distinctly interdisciplinary approach. Its Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department develops exhibitions, acquisitions, and research projects in close dialogue with current issues, with a focus on transnational circulations, emerging scenes, and experimental forms. The recent integration of AWARE further strengthens this direction by placing the research and visibility of women artists at the core of a more inclusive art history.

Institut français du Canada

As part of a vast global network, the Institut français du Canada’s mission is to strengthen ties between France and Canada and promote exchanges through artistic, educational, scientific, and academic projects.

In collaboration with our public and private partners, we organise a variety of events and develop customised programmes.

We also support the talents of today and tomorrow through residencies in France and Canada for artists and intellectuals, thereby promoting cross-cultural research and creation between our two countries.