Since Summer 2020, Shalak has worked alongside community participants who identify as newcomers to build the Daily Migration mural story. The mural explores themes of migration through shared stories of arrival, departure, home and longing.

The Daily Migration mural will be painted at the south entrance of Wilson TTC Station in mid-September 2021 and we’d love to hear from you!

Header Image: Free Lolita Mural, Clandestinos Art (Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky) & Big Walls Big Dreams.

UpartStudio production – Wynwood, Miami, Florida, 2015.

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The Daily Migration project team is committed to the community’s full participation for this project.

Please indicate any support you require during registration or contact ima@stepspublicart.org for more information.

*Honorariums are available for participants who participate in community consultation activities and are selected to assist the artist during mural production.

**Special thanks to Shalak Attack for providing the header image featuring her past work.

Daily Migration is a community based, participatory arts project that began in Summer 2020 offering social connection to three unique yet interconnected programming threads: community engagement sessions, collaborative arts workshops, and online exhibition featuring artwork and writings of workshop participants. 

Because of the current pandemic, workshops last year were reimagined to follow social distancing protocols and were offered online. Fifteen individuals from the City of Toronto who self-identified as migrants participated in workshop sessions each based on storytelling, shared experiences, and art-making. Each participant was inspired by the theme of Daily Migration either through lived experiences or from a universal perspective, culminating in an online exhibit of writing and one-of-a-kind artwork.

The Gathering, Clandestinos Art (Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky). Artscape Festival – Torsby, Sweden, 2017.

Shalak Attack is an internationally-known Canadian-Chilean visual artist dedicated to painting large scale street art murals, community murals and canvas art around the world. In Shalak’s artistic practice, she fuses the spirit of South American muralism with contemporary street art. Shalak’s distinctive multi-layered and signature use of colour are emblematic of her unique style that inhabits the realm of psychedelic magical realism.

Currently based in Toronto, Canada, Shalak’s murals have contributed culture, life, consciousness and personality to public and otherwise forgotten spaces. Shalak shares her passion for freedom of expression, and has facilitated visual art workshops to at-risk youth, women and community empowerment groups, as well as prisoners in various countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and in Africa. Her artistic work and community art-reach is rooted in the social and cultural values she received from her family who immigrated to Canada as part of the Chilean political diaspora caused by the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.