Contemporary Art Bus Tour – Art Museum to The Blackwood

Join the Art Museum and the Blackwood Gallery for a contemporary art bus tour! The program begins at the Art Museum with tours of Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. at the University of Toronto Art Centre and Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. From there, the bus departs for the Blackwood Gallery for a tour of STIM CINEMA and Spreads from the Multiverse.

Art Museum tour: 11:30am–1pm
Bus to Blackwood: 1–2pm
Blackwood tour: 2–3pm
Bus back to Art Museum: 3–4pm

February 25, 2026–August 1, 2026
University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle

Curated by Michelle Jacques and Sally Frater

Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt offers a space of reflection about the Caribbean through the work of eleven artists, who continue to have familial and lived ties to the region. Each of the works speaks to an intimate engagement with the land, sharing a way of knowing it through physical experience and embodied knowledge. The work attests to the ways in which Caribbean communities resist, adapt, and create—sustaining powerful traditions of solidarity, cultural expression, and environmental care in the wake of the pressures of colonial legacies, social and economic inequity, and environmental incursions and climate change.

Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. is circulated by Remai Modern with the support of the Frank & Ellen Remai Foundation.

February 25, 2026–April 11, 2026
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle

Curated by Elizabeth Diggon

Hangama Amiri creates intricately layered textile compositions that muse on kinship, and memory, and the meaning of home. PARTING/فراق builds on an ongoing body of work that focuses on the artist’s personal history and diasporic experience during the nine-year period of familial separation that followed her family’s migration from Kabul in 1996, when the artist was seven years old. In the present, Amiri draws on family photographs and letters to create dense and lush collages that tend to her and her family’s daily lives in the diaspora, and witness the immense labour of caring for a family amidst migration and separation.

Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق at the Art Museum is organized and circulated by Esker Foundation, Calgary.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA

The Neurocultures Collective (Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Sam Shown-Ahearn, Robin Elliot-Knowles, Lucy Walker), a group of neurodivergent artists in collaboration with artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood

October 1, 2025–February 28, 2026
Curated by Christine Shaw

STIM CINEMA is an exhibition and moving image installation that explores neurodivergent perception, agency, and communication in an era increasingly defined by misinformation, polarization, and systemic distrust.

At its core, the project asks: What does it mean to trust one’s own perception when dominant narratives privilege certain ways of sensing, knowing, and being? How do neurodivergent experiences of movement, repetition, and sensory engagement challenge dystopian conditions of control, standardization, and hypersynchronization?

Comprised of tactile zoetropes, a three-screen film installation, and a studio featuring the collective’s collaborative process, STIM CINEMA critically intervenes in the dystopian conditions where difference is pathologized, sensory processing is disciplined, and trust in institutions is eroded. Instead of reinforcing logics of neurotypicality, this project explores other linguistic and embodied possibilities for being in relation—where trust is built through sensory connection, shared experience, and an ethics of care.

Imane Boukaila, Hannah Emerson, Lauren Russell, Adam Wolfond

February 1–April 30, 2026
Curated by Chris Martin

Lightbox exhibition presented alongside STIM CINEMA in the Blackwood’s campus galleries.

Spreads from the Multiverse is the plainest way to say what these images are: spread pages from texts in the Multiverse series of neurodivergent writing from Milkweed Editions. But Spreads from the Multiverse also gestures towards Adam Wolfond’s invitation to “extend the choreography.” Something spreads from the text to the reader, who these images make clear is also always a viewer. And when it spreads, there is a transference of sorts, a contagion, a becoming. The text, as Hannah Emerson writes, “helps you get / that the world was made / from the garbage at the bottom / of the universe that was boiling over / with joy that wanted to become you you / you yes yes yes.” Joyful contagion, gregarious becoming. The text, as Lauren Russell writes, “above beneath within between” is “asking / a question that blooms in me like a tulip.” Omnidirectional bouquet, walking garden of questions. By extending the choreography, becoming ourselves, and blooming anew, we are, as Imane Boukaila writes, “distancing totally ourselves / from OMG dusty norms.” How will the spreads spread from human to text to human to text to human and on and on? How will the reading be spreading from here to there, from you to you to you to yes?

For full program descriptions and artist bios, visit the and the pages on the Art Museum’s website, and the and pages on the Blackwood website.

While all stops on the tour are accessible and free of physical barriers, we regret that the shuttle bus is not accessible.

The Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. tour will take place the University of Toronto Art Centre, located inside University College. The accessible entrance to the University of Toronto Art Centre is through the Croft entrance on the southwest side of University College. The University Art Centre has a set of double doors halfway through the gallery that are not accessible. Front-of-house staff are available to assist with these as needed.

The Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق tour will take place at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, located inside Hart House. The accessible entrance to the gallery is through the Tower Road entrance of Hart House. The exhibition features unobstructed pathways. When not already available within the exhibition, seating is available upon request at the front desk. Accessible washrooms are located on the main floor outside of the Great Hall and in the Hart House Theatre lobby. A Universal Washroom is also located on the basement level, outside the Arbor Room.

Accessible washrooms are available in the University of Toronto Art Centre itself, as well as on the lower levels of University College and Hart House. Art Museum exhibitions include unobstructed pathways. Some seating is always available within our exhibitions. Additional seating is available upon request at the front desk at each gallery. Large-print formats for exhibition texts are available.

The Art Museum is continually working towards improving accessibility to our museum spaces, exhibitions, and programs. If you require support in planning your visit, need further details about the visiting experience, or would like to provide access feedback, please contact Melody Lu, Operations Assistant, at [email protected] or 416-978-8017.

The STIM CINEMA tour will begin at the Blackwood Gallery, which is a physically accessible space. The Blackwood Gallery is located in room 140, on the ground floor of the the Kaneff Centre/Innovation Complex, which includes open spaces, round sloped corners, and windows to facilitate visual communication and navigation. Accessible multi-user gendered washrooms are located at ground level.

To view the four outdoor lightboxes for Spreads from the Multiverse, some movement throughout the campus is be required—ramps and curb cuts are in place. The 6-foot by 9-foot lightboxes are located on the exteriors of the Kaneff Centre, Davis Building, and in the CCT Courtyard along the bustling central paved pathways of the University of Toronto Mississauga campus. Please note part of the tour will be in an unpaved area a short distance from a paved walking trail. Its surface is hard-packed mulch. For more details, download a printable map of the exhibition sites on campus.

If you have questions about accessibility or have specific access needs, please contact a Blackwood Gallery staff member at [email protected] or 905-828-3789.

Info: Tours at the Art Museum: University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle, and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle

Info: Bus from Downtown Toronto to Mississauga

Info: Tour at the Blackwood: 3359 Mississauga Road, Kaneff Room 140 and CCT ground floor

Info: Bus returns to the Art Museum. ETA: 4pm

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