Dayna Danger, Big’Uns – Adrienne, detail, digital print, 2017
- Friday, June 1, 2018
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Curator Lee-Ann Martin will speak about her curatorial premise and research in putting together the remarkable, ground-breaking exhibition Resilience, produced by MAWA and presented nationally on billboards June-August, 2018.
Free, all are welcome!
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Lee-Ann Martin is one of the most senior contemporary Indigenous Curators in the Country. She is the former Curator of Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Art at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec and the former Head Curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. A small selection of Martin’s curatorial projects include Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba (2011); the nationally touring exhibitions, The Powwow: An Art History, MacKenzie Art Gallery (2000) and INDIGENA: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on 500 Years, Canadian Museum of Civilization (1992), which travelled internationally.