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James Michael Yeboah

September-October 2017

Toronto artist shows off the soft side of Black masculinity

Inside James Michael Yeboah’s new show, When Black Boys Cry, on why it's okay to be emotional

Leah Lalich@LeahLalich

James Michael Yeboah isn’t shy about his feelings. “I’m really sensitive. I cry all the time,” he says. That was the inspiration behind his first solo show, When Black Boys Cry. The Toronto-based painter says a lot of the subject matter within his project is about what he saw within himself. “Those ideas of me being […] More »