When Roots Meet Water: Photography Mural Program

Are you an emerging or mid-career photographer? Are you passionate about exploring identity, confronting social issues and embracing the power of self-expression?

Consider “When Roots Meet Water,” our photography mural project that seeks to amplify Black voices through photography and collage work. Facilitated by award-winning photographer and community leader Anthony Gebrehiwot, this 8-week program will encourage participants to enhance their technical training in photography in a formal setting, and undertake a research project that will culminate in a large-scale printed photography mural right here at Nia Centre.

Space for this workshop is limited, so we will be prioritizing Black emerging to mid-career artists who can commit to the full 8-week program.

Applications close Friday, July 18th.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

The workshops will be held on Wednesdays at 6:30pm – 8:30pm on the following days:

Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

All workshops are mandatory.

Meet the Facilitator

Anthony Gebrehiwot

Anthony Gebrehiwot is an award winning artist, curator and community leader whose creative lens re-visions photography as an ongoing dialogue of social change between subject and society.

Gebrehiwot seeks to communicate without language in an intimate and vulnerable way: through his art, he portrays the vocabulary of race, masculinity, history, perception, and vulnerability. Combining contrasting landscapes, Black bodies, and raw human emotion, Gebrehiwot explores the affective power of Black bodies in confronting the viewer’s humanity and empathy.