Inner Space with Beige Blum

Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.
The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada.
This month we meet artist Beige Blum, a recent OCADU Illustration program graduate. As a biracial queer artist, she has a passion for illustration, comics, zines and character design. Beige's work focuses on both the lighthearted and mundane, and works of social commentary and empowerment!
I chose to nominate Beige Blum for Inner Space because marginalized artists and art forms need more representation in the arts community. Her work focuses on social commentary and empowerment with an attentive yet humorous approach grounded in lived experience as a biracial queer artist blending digital and physical illustrations, comics, zines, risograph prints and more. - Arden Cahill: Youth Advisory Member
Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTH
Created and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne Beckles
Edited by AGO Video Team: Fraser Wrighte
Curated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.
Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.
Music Via Soundstripe
© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023