EventsExhibition tours with artists and curators / right before the fall launch party!
Carleton University Art Gallery
September 14, 2025
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Engaging with an artwork by Andy Slater, Andy Slater: Paintings and Sculptures, University Galleries of Illinois State University, 2025. Photo credit: Jade (Minh Hà) Nguyễn.
A unique take on two exhibition tours, with friends!
Come for tours of our two fall exhibitions – Runs in the Family and Andy Slater and Emily Cook: Unknown Area – at 1:30 and stay for the launch party at 2:30. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome!
From 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Join informal conversational tours of Runs in the Family and Andy Slater and Emily Cook: Unknown Area with the curators and several of the artists.
From 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.: Join us for the launch party, which features light refreshments and tunes by MusicByJayel. Opening remarks at 3:00 p.m. (with ASL interpretation).
Access: CUAG is an accessible space with barrier-free washrooms and an elevator. This event will require moving around the gallery. Light chairs are available. A microphone will be used.
A new residence building at the north of campus has changed the usual access routes to CUAG. Check the visiting page of this website for access details.
Parking: Discount passes ($5.00 flat rate) will be available for purchase from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. for parking in P18 (the big parkade over the O-train tracks). Gallery staff will be standing outside the P18 parkade right before the entrance.
This event is part of Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Transmission. More info here.
Participants
Meryl McMaster is a Canadian artist based in the town of Chelsea, Quebec. McMaster is nêhiyaw from Red Pheasant Cree Nation, a member of the Siksika Nation, British and Dutch. Her photography explores questions of how our sense of self is constructed through land, lineage, history and culture.
Gerald McMaster is a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and citizen of the Siksika First Nation. A curator, artist, author and professor emeritus, he is the former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture and director of Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD University.
Mairi Brascoupé is a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist born and raised on unceded Algonquin Territory in Ottawa. She aims to decolonize the design process, bringing traditional Indigenous knowledge into her artistic practice to highlight the importance of our present day relationship with the land.
Simon Brascoupé is an Anishinaabe/ Haudenosaunee artist from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation based on Algonquin Territory in Ottawa. His artistic vision is to have a significant presence in public art and institutions for Algonquin and Indigenous art and culture.
Andy Slater is a blind Chicago-based media artist, writer, performer and disability advocate/loudmouth. Andy holds a Master of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Emily Cook is an artist who works primarily in handmade paper exploring memory and loss through manipulating the processing of fiber into objects that often look more found than made. As a low vision arts worker, she is active within disability arts and crip culture.
