A unique take on an artist talk, with friends!
Join us for an informal, conversational tour of Joi T. Arcand: ᑳᐃᓯᓈᑿᐦᑭᐃᑘᐏᓇ kā-isinākwahki itwēwina: The Shape of Words with artist Joi T. Arcand and four guests: Heather Anderson, Cedar Eve, Kai Recollet and Omeasoo Wahpasiw.
Joi will field questions from Heather, Kai and Omeasoo, offering insights into the works’ stories, themes and questions. We will also hear from Cedar Eve, Joi’s collaborator on sculptures in her urban Cree utopia installation in the High Gallery.
Access CUAG is an accessible space with barrier-free washrooms and an elevator.
This event is part of Stonecroft Semester: The Art of Negotiating Visibility. More info here.
Participants
Heather Anderson is Acting Director of Carleton University Art Gallery, previously Curator, where she integrates an artist-centered approach to exhibition making within an interdisciplinary environment.
Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation (Saskatchewan) Treaty 6 Territory, currently residing in Ottawa (Ontario) on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory.
Cedar Eve is a visual artist currently based in Montreal. She is Anishinaabe (Ojibway), from Saugeen First Nation and Wikwemikong Unceded Territory, but born and raised in Toronto.
Omeasoo Wahpasiw is a nehiyaw iskwew living in Anishinaabe territory. She is an Assistant Professor in Carleton University in the Department of History, the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and the School of Architecture and Urbanism.
Kai Recollet is an urban Cree scholar/artist/and writer whose work focuses on relationality and care as both an analytic and technology for Indigenous movement-based forms of inquiry within urban spaces.
