EventsAn Artful Practice Conversation
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (280 Lisgar)
March 22, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
From left: Hannah Claus, Sherry Farrell Racette, Rosalie Favell, Emma Hassencahl-Perley
Artists explore how their artistic practices shape their curatorial work
Join artists and curators Hannah Claus, Sherry Farrell Racette, Rosalie Favell and Emma Hassencahl-Perley in a free public conversation moderated by Carmen Robertson. This conversation invites artists to explore how their artistic practices shape their curatorial work.
This discussion is the second in a series of three conversations organized by Carmen Robertson and Danielle Printup, in anticipation of Runs in the Family, a group exhibition curated by Carmen Robertson and Hanako Hubbard-Radulovich and presented at CUAG in fall 2025.
The series focuses on Indigenous curatorial practices, highlighting dialogic practice as a key methodology. It will foster dialogue, honour memories, explore movements and recognize the transformative impact of Indigenous curation across generations.
Throughout the series, speakers and participants will explore the evolution of Indigenous curation, highlighting how curatorial practices are active currents that adapt and respond to changing contexts over time.
This conversation is free and open to everyone. No registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided.
Directions Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC) is located at 290 Lisgar Street in downtown Ottawa and is accessible by public transit.
Access CDCC is a fully accessible space, with an elevator and barrier-free washrooms. The Para Transpo drop-off and an entrance with ramps are located on the 290 Lisgar Street side of the building.
Parking Paid visitor parking is available in the CDCC’s Lisgar Street lot. The cost on weekends is $4.00 (flat rate) to 6:00 p.m. There is also street parking available nearby.
Participants
Hannah Claus (Kanien’kehá:ka | English) utilizes material and sensorial relationships within her studio practice to explore Kanien’kehá:ka epistemologies and frameworks. She is a co-founder of Quebec’s first Indigenous-led artist-run centre, daphne (2019-).
Sherry Farrell Racette (Metis/Algonquin/Irish) was born in Manitoba and is a Bill C-31 member of Temiskaming First Nation in Quebec. She is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance at the University of Regina. She has done extensive work in archives and museum collections with an emphasis on retrieving women’s voices and recovering aesthetic knowledge. As an artist, Farrell Racette has exhibited paintings and textile works, and has illustrated ten books working with noted authors such as Maria Campbell, Louise Halfe, and Rita Bouvier. Recent group exhibitions include Looking the World in the Face, the Canada Council Art Bank 50th Anniversary exhibition (2022), A Prairie Vernacular (2020), and Resilience: National Billboard Exhibition Project (2018). Major curatorial projects include Radical Stitch (with Michelle Lavallee and Cathy Mattes, 2022-2025), Kwaata-nihtaawakihk – A Hard Birth (with Cathy Mattes, 2022), and Chiwayr lee zistwayr: Look at the Stories (2024), a community photography project with Metis elders. Farrell Racette was the inaugural Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe (2009), the Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow at Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto (2016) and received the University Art Association of Canada (UAAC-AAUC) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
Rosalie Favell is a distinguished Metis artist with a creative practice that spans over 40 years. She has achieved national and international acclaim. Favell has used photography, portraiture and painting to understand and represent her ancestry and identity in works that have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.
Emma Hassencahl-Perley is a visual artist focusing on painting, beadwork and digital illustration, connecting ancestral Wabanaki material culture with contemporary digital storytelling techniques. Emma has also been the curator of Indigenous Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery since 2018.