In February 2023, Jimmy Baptiste’s stunning Afrofuturist artwork Onah was featured on the Kipnes Lantern. The Haitian-Canadian artist’s work was specially commissioned by the NAC for Black History Month.
Best known as a graffiti and muralist artist, Jimmy Baptiste has also been working with youth for nearly 20 years on mural projects in Montréal, in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada. The 43-year-old community engaged artist also travels once a year to First Nations communities to work with them on various art projects.
To digitally mark the holidays in a meaningful way, the National Arts Centre is once again sharing Jimmy Baptiste’s Onah on the Kipnes Lantern, helping to light up the Nation’s Capital at this wintry time of year. The Haitian-Canadian artist’s work was originally commissioned by the NAC for…
“It looks pretty sick at night.” That’s how Wakefield artist Jimmy Baptiste describes looking up at his five-storey animated creation,...
(in French) Un œuvre francophone sur la Lanterne Kipnes
"I decided to create something that would be really impactful visually, and something that would make the Black, and Ottawa, community reall
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