Curated by Michael McGuire, based on exhibition at MSVU Art Gallery

The East of East Atlantic Canadian Hip Hop Archive, founded by artist and academic Michael McGuire, documents and preserve recordings, visual works, and information from the region’s diverse hip hop artists and communities since the 1980s. This exhibit showcases recordings, posters, and other ephemera, and celebrates the work of primarily independent artists from PEI. 

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Michael McGuire is an artist and academic based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Inspired by the hip hop tapes he discovered as a child, he started rapping and performing spoken word as Hermitofthewoods. In the years that followed, he began facilitating workshops and giving talks on the culture and production of hip hop, with a particular focus on the local scene in Halifax. Leaning into the academic world, a Master’s thesis on the history of hip hop in Halifax soon followed, along with an opportunity to teach in the Cultural Studies program at Mount Saint Vincent University which, in turn, lead to pursuing a doctorate in critical hip hop pedagogy. In 2017, he established the East of East Atlantic Canadian Hip Hop to preserve the cultural legacy of the region’s hip hop artists and as a platform for future academic research and study.  He lives in Timberlea, Nova Scotia with an adorable beagle named Goose.