WAG Wednesday Nights

Mar 4

5:00pm - 9:00pm

Join us for a thought-provoking night with Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette (Algonquin/Metis/Irish), Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, as she explores acts of reclamation and collaboration in contemporary Indigenous art.

In this talk, entitled The Resurgence of Traditional Media and Acts of “Doing” in Contemporary Indigenous Art, Dr. Farrell Racette highlights how contemporary artists are revitalizing labour-intensive, material-based practices to create spaces where artmaking, language-learning, and education come together.

Drawing on Nehiyawak understandings of knowledge as an interweaving of doing, being, becoming, and acting, Dr. Farrell Racette considers how practices such as beadwork, hand-tanned hide, porcupine quillwork, and tufting have moved from community spaces into galleries through acts of reclamation and collaboration — activating Indigenous knowledge in ways that are deeply rooted in the past while shaping the future.

If you have any accessibility requirements, please email chrr@umanitoba.ca

*Featured artwork: Sherry Farrell Racette

Sherry Farrell Racette

Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active artistic and curatorial practice. She was born in Manitoba and is a member of Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec. Her work as a cultural historian is grounded in extensive work in archives and museum collections with an emphasis on Indigenous women and recovering aesthetic knowledge. Beadwork and stitch-based work is important to her artistic practice, creative research, and pedagogy.