Media Coverage

Vapes & Butts

 

VANCOUVER SUN

Vapes & Butts: Vancouver exhibit sees smoking as works of art

 

STIR ARTS & CULTURE VANCOUVER

At Gallery 881, Vapes & Butts looks at tobacco smoking through an artist’s lens

 

THE COMMENTARY – JOSEPH PLANTA

The photographer and artist Michelle Leone Huisman discusses her exhibit Vapes & Butts

 

JAY MINTER – ON THE LIST

Michelle Leone Huisman turns waste into art with new exhibition – Vapes & Butts

 

PHOTOED

PhotoEd Magazine #74 featured Vapes & Butts (Smokin’) Memory Issue 2025

 

CMYK9

TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Love dogs? Check out this TMU grad’s photography exhibit
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YOUNG W
CMYK9: Michelle Huisman at Silvershack
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SesayArts Magazine
Michelle Leone Huisman’s CMYK9: the Finale of a Critically-Acclaimed Photography Trilogy
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CJRU
From a pandemic dog art show to a film about Thorncliffe Park, Toronto’s art culture is booming
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ON THE LIST
See The Pandemic Through Canine Eyes in Michelle Leone Huisman’s CMYK9 Exhibition

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Global Pandemic

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CBC NEWS
This Vancouver photographer has turned mask trash into photogenic art

THE VANCOUVER SUN
Masks and Mother Nature combine for twofold pandemic statement
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THE PROVINCE
Masks and Mother Nature combine for twofold pandemic statement
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JAY MINTER – ON THE LIST
View Michelle Leone Huisman’s Global Pandemic at The Dal Schindell Gallery
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FAIRCHILD TV: URBAN LIFE
Global Pandemic 全球大流行攝影展

MiSS 604
Michelle Leone Huisman Turns Discarded Masks into Global Pandemic Art Exhibition

CITY NEWS
Vancouver artist upcycles tossed, lost face masks to shine light on environment
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GLOBAL NEWS
Turning discarded masks into art

VITA DAILY
Face Masks Make Fine Art
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DAILY HIVE
Discarded COVID-19 masks transform into art in new Vancouver exhibit (PHOTOS)

VANCOUVER IS AWESOME
Vancouver photographer turning masks into fine art

THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT
Discarded COVID-19 masks become Huisman’s art
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LA SOURCE
Des masques porteurs d’espoir et de gravité
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THE COMMENTARY – JOSEPH PLANTA
Michelle Leone Huisman
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PREVIEW MAGAZINE
MICHELLE LEONE HUISMAN: GLOBAL PANDEMIC
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RADIO-CANADA
Quand les masques deviennent source d’inspiration pour une photographe de Vancouver
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WANDERING AUTUMN MAGAZINE
COVID-19: A Documentation of the Canadian Experience, Issue 5
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An Unexpected Collection

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GLOBAL TV
Vancouver photographer creates tribute to frontline workers with ‘broken spoon art’

STIR ARTS & CULTURE VANCOUVER
Broken spoons from the 7pm cheer for health-care workers turn into a new fine-art photography exhibition
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THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT
Michelle Leone Huisman offers An Unexpected Collection
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