Basie Jam #1 - 2000-2023mixed media: found object, acrylic, photography, on old door 70 X 30 in. 2023 "I started this piece twenty years ago and just revisited it in 2023. It features a record which was one of my first introductions to jazz, the vinyl record called Basie Jam. This record was one of several that Count Basie recorded in his home with some of the greatest players of the jazz world in NYC at that time, all his friends. The sessions are known as some of the best

but the rest are all sold off

The sessions are known as some of the best examples of the music of that era

Viola Desmond

It speaks of the time we just experienced

acrylic photo collage on birch panel

she devoted herself primarily to graphic art after 1890

"I hand coloured this with pastels

Trottier’s work is noteworthy for his powerful

Some people say black people are lazy

"I want to show people that we are more than just slaves

circa 1950

it got out of the way in a flash