Spring Artist in Residence 2026: Toby Green

Please give a warm welcome to our Spring Artist in Residence for 2026, Toby Green!

Toby will be with us for the month of April to work on his graphic novel project, Adagio. 

Toby Green is a Disabled drawing artist who makes comics about sickness and crip time. Since 2020, Toby has been slowly creating his debut graphic novel, "Adagio": a story about a musician on the brink of severe illness, who is relearning how to keep time.

After growing up as a trans youth in Saint John / Menahqesk, Toby got sick as hell, and is currently drawing from bed in Halifax / Kjipuktuk. His parallel experiences of accessing gender-affirming care as a young person, and of accessing ongoing medical care for severe illness, are woven together as a fictionalized story about patient liberation and bodily autonomy in "Adagio". 

Toby is a white settler currently resting in Mi'kma'ki, and if you spot him on a very rare outing, he can be seen looking sleepy in a hunky power chair. 

[ID: Drawn panels from Adagio by Toby Green illustrate the story's narrator, Lucky, sitting on his bed. In the top panel, it's 2027, and he's 30 years old, spraying his shoulder-length curls with a spritz bottle as he rests next to his power chair, his exposed chest decorated in heart monitor electrodes, nipple piercings, and top surgery scars. In the bottom panel, it's 2013, and he's 16 years old, lying on his back beside an open window decorated with plants and a metronome, playing the fiddle. Lucky's character is a white trans man (or boy, at 16).]