Artist collective celebrates the women of Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood
She invited them to use the photoshoots to showcase a feature they already love about themselves or a flaw, since acknowledging an insecurity is a step towards defeating it.Six years later, the artist collective and social enterprise Luy founded runs an internship program, has published a visual anthology, showcased its young artists and entrepreneurs in exhibits and at a community market, and is planning to open a creative co-working space.
The movement ran open photoshoots every couple of months for several years before putting on its first art show just months before the pandemic emerged, and since then, has taken on its first cohort of interns — a half dozen racialized women mostly from underserved communities who have taken the opportunity and run with it.
The Ontario government early last year donated land for the community to create a 65,000-square-foot Jane-Finch Community Hub and Centre for the Arts, fulfilling a long-standing commitment that transit agency Metrolinx had earlier sought to renege on.
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