Tapwe Talk

Jaime Morse is Michif from northern Alberta. She is an Educator of Indigenous Programs and Outreach at the National Gallery of Canada, and is the owner of Indigenous Walks, a local walk-and-talk tour company. In addition, she is a visual artist who mentors and teaches fish-scale art, beadwork and the drawing of floral-inspired designs on animal hides/skins.

Arianne Mulaire, is a bilingual Métis from the Red River Valley in what is now known as Manitoba. She is an interpreter at the National Gallery of Canada where she helps visitors create an understanding of the pieces they are looking at. Arianne also works in community outreach and research in Arts and Culture. Arianne is deeply invested in participating in her culture and sharing her own knowledge.

Sherry Farrell-Racette is co-curator of the exhibition, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, University of Regina. Her research includes explorations of the history of First Nations and Métis women, art history, museum collections, traditional arts, issues of self-representation, and Indigenous knowledge. Previous curatorial work includes the Walking With Our Sisters art installation, and she is widely published on topics such as Indigenous photography, First Nations and Métis women in the fur trade, and the art of Indigenous women.

Cathy Mattes is Michif from southwestern Manitoba, and co-curator of the exhibition. In addition to being an Associate Professor of art history at the University of Winnipeg, she is a noted writer, lecturer and beadworker. Her research work centres around Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous art, and she has curated more than fifty exhibitions, served on numerous boards and committees, and given workshops on topics ranging from beadwork and moccasin-making to Indigenous research methodologies and art education.

Sheri Nault is a Michif, Nehiyaw, and mixed-European visual artist, community activist and educator. Nault’s art practice acknowledges a future rich in kinship sensibilities, two-spirit wisdom, traditional and contemporary Indigenous art forms, and often reflects chimeric ways of being, incorporating human and non-human bodily references, mould-making, and gathered earth materials.

Ottawa based Rosalie Favell was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Drawing inspiration from her family history and Métis (Cree/English) heritage, she uses a variety of sources, from family albums to popular culture, to present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a contemporary aboriginal woman. To date Rosalie’s work has explored the relation of photography to issues of identity. A major body of recent work, Facing the Camera (2008-2018), is a large document of 500 portraits of Aboriginal artists.

Over the course of her long career, Favell’s work has appeared in exhibitions in Canada, the US and Internationally. Numerous institutions have acquired her artwork including: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Indigenous Art Centre, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (Gatineau, Québec), North American Native Museum (Zurich, Switzerland), Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.), and Global Affairs Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, MB) She has received numerous grants, and won prestigious awards such as the Ontario Arts Foundation – Paul DeHuek/Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, the Chalmers Fellowship, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunten Award and the Karsh Award.

Tarah Hogue is a Métis curator, writer and cultural worker based in Saskatoon, in Treaty 6 territory. Her work examines the ability of art and artists to envision and enact ways of being in the world, while also prioritizing Indigenous knowledge in dialogue with other cultural communities. Hogue is currently Curator of Indigenous Art at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon, and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective.