Collection 11 Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA)

Natasha Mhuriro

Researcher
Joseph Mwesigwa Ssendikaddiwa

Researcher
Jazmin Hundal

Advisory
Ellen Lee

Designer
Shafira Vidyamaharani

Data Visualization
Ata Ojani

Illustrator
Amany Al-Sayyed

Copy Editor
Victoria Lum

Visual Identity
Jessica Wadsworth

Community Outreach Lead
Kimberley Wong

Advisory
Tania Willard

Advisory
Julia Aoki

Advisory
Anju Singh

Artist
Laura Morales Padilla

Artist
Odera Igbokwe

Artist
Maya McKibbin

Artist
Dana Qaddah

Staff

Start year: 2026

This collection documents the research and artistic outcomes of Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA), a 221A initiative examining racial equity within British Columbia’s arts, culture, and heritage sector. The collection centres on the ARTSTATUS research project and includes research publications, a working reference library assembled during the research process, and original artworks commissioned in response to the project’s findings. The reference materials bring together writing on institutional power, cultural policy, and racial equity in the arts. Commissioned works by participating artists respond to themes arising from the research through painting, comics, illustrated text, and moving image. Together, the materials document both the research process and the ways artists engaged with questions and ideas that emerged from the research itself.

Browse Collection 11

17 items

Media link	Name	Call No.	Produced by	Material	Selected by	Collection
	ARTSTATUS Executive Summary	SEA 001	SEARA Team	Print	Dana Qaddah	11
	The Wretched of the Earth	SEA 002	Frantz Fanon	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada	SEA 003	Lynn Caldwell; Carrianne K. Y. Leung; Darryl Leroux	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	The Post-Colonial Studies Reader	SEA 004	Bill Ashcroft; Gareth Griffiths; Helen Tiffin	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Future Diasporas: Culture, Art, Identity, Space & Toronto’s Unaffordable Urban Landscape	SEA 005	Alycia Shanika	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples	SEA 006	Gregory Younging	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods	SEA 007	Shawn Wilson	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance	SEA 008	Candice Hopkins	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Other Conundrums: Race, Culture, and Canadian Art	SEA 009	Monika Kin Gagnon	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Learning From Ancestors: Epistemic Restitution and Rematriation	SEA 010	Irene de Craen	Periodical issue; print publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America	SEA 011	Whitney Battle-Baptiste; Britt Rusert	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada	SEA 012	John Porter	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Diversity Counts: Gender, Race, and Representation in Canadian Art Galleries	SEA 013	Anne Dymond	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Asian Community Convener Project Report	SEA 014	Hua Foundation	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	Asian Community Convener Community Catalogue	SEA 015	Hua Foundation	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
	SEARA Administrative documents	SEA 016	Dana Qaddah	File folder	Dana Qaddah	11
	From the River to the Sea: The Palestine Issue	SEA 017	Parapraxis Magazine	Print Publication	Dana Qaddah	11
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