11/20/2025
✨ Artspace has teamed up with Take Home BIPOC Arts House to create a very special fundraising initiative, sponsored by Don’s Photo!
This online donation drive supports these two organizations, both of which create meaningful space for artists in Manitoba. Our orgs have also teamed up with visual artist and Take Home member, Bria Fernandes, to offer donors a piece of artwork as a way of saying thank you!
✨ Visit the link in our Instagram bio or art-space.ca/donate/ to donate!
Donations $100 + over receive a signed Bria Fernandes digital print
Donors who contribute less than $100 will be entered for a draw to win a print, drawn on December 19th 2025
✨ About the Artist
Bria Fernandes is a Canadian-born figurative painter whose work explores the social, cultural, and personal experiences of being a Black woman. Her art delves into themes of identity, vulnerability, and belonging, using silence, omission, and exclusion as tools to depict oppression and introspection. Through symbolic imagery and passive body postures, she captures moments of self-reflection, focusing on marginalized communities’ unseen emotions and unspoken truths. Working primarily with oil paint and acrylics, Bria incorporates symbolic objects and animals that reflect her personal and cultural narratives. Her intricate works create emotionally resonant spaces, inviting viewers to share these moments of introspection and fostering dialogue about identity, anxiety, and displacement. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Bria now resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has completed her BFA at Alberta University of the Arts.
This digital print edition captures a section of a mural Fernandes painted for Take Home in 2023, which can be viewed on the 6th floor of Artspace.
