Sumac Publishing

02/23/2024

12/04/2023

Looking for a good book to read over the holidays? The biography Who Is Kim Ondaatje? is now available at the following art galleries’ shops: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Oshawa’s Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Museum London and Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Drop in and pick up a copy or click:
https://shoprmg.ca/products/who-is-kim-ondaatje?_pos=1&_sid=4f0d91100&_ss=r
https://shop.ago.ca/85094/who-is-kim-ondaatje/
And it’s always available through our website:
https://sumacpublishing.com/buy-wiko -be00-4790-83a5-8bf99f8b2663
A great gift for the art lovers on your holiday list!

07/25/2023

Great news for book lovers in the Kingston Ontario area!
The new biography Who Is Kim Ondaatje? is a great summer read and available at Novel Idea bookstore, 156 Princess St.
Drop in and pick up a copy!
It’s also available at
sumacpublishing.com!

07/18/2023

A new, greener home for our national library and archives…

06/29/2023

The Greg Younging Publishing Award Endowment was established on May 5, 2021 to honour Dr. Gregory Younging, the first Indigenous graduate of the Master of Publishing (MPub) program. The endowment will create a fully funded opportunity for an Indigenous student to complete the MPub degree at Simon Fr...

04/12/2023

We're pleased to announce the biography
Who Is Kim Ondaatje? is now available in e-book as well as paperback. Buy your copy today at
https://sumacpublishing.com/shop

04/05/2023

Here's a video (2021) from Devyani Saltzman and Renee van der Avoird of the Art Gallery of Ontario discussing Kim Ondaatje's "House on Picadilly Street" series, created when Kim and Michael lived in London Ontario. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhtGVEM-pE&t=10s

"The Canadian art critic Barry Lord referred to London artists as “global villagers”plugged into larger art worlds while being irrevocably committedto producing work from their own experience. London artists,among them Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe, Tony Urquhart andKim Ondaatje, were creating a sense of excitement around newand individual bodies of significant work."
From the book "Who Is Kim Ondaatje?", available at the AGO shop and at
sumacpublishing.com/shop

Join Devyani Saltzman, Director of Public Programming, and Renee van der Avoird, Assistant Curator of Canadian Art, as they discuss Kim Ondaatje's House on P...

03/21/2023

Welcome to Sumac Publishing. We’re a small independent publisher releasing books by and about Canadian writers and artists. We are pleased to announce our first book:
Who Is Kim Ondaatje? The Inventive Life of a Canadian Artist by Lola Tostevin.

It’s a great read and you can buy it on our website:

Sumac Publishing presents Who Is Kim Ondaatje?, the biography of a talented, driven Canadian artist.