Session 4A : Reid Lecture Theatre
Saturday June 10th, 2023 : 13:30 – 16:00
Overview
Art in Crises explores the relationship of art practice, pedagogy, and conditions of crises.
Interrelated contexts of cis-heteropatriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, climate change, and now COVID19 present lived and material realities within which life, art practice, and teaching must engage (and survive). How do we teach these topics ethically, fully, and responsibly? What questions must we bring–or not bring–into the classroom to evoke deeper thoughts and conversations from our students, from ourselves, and from the institutions in which we work?
What does art provide for us here?
Speakers
Judy Anderson
Judy Anderson is nêhiyaw from Gordon First Nation, SK. Anderson’s practice includes beadwork, installation, painting, three-dimensional pieces, and collaborative projects. Her work focuses on spirituality, nêhiyaw intellectualizations of the world, relationality, graffiti, colonialism and decolonization. She is an Associate Professor of Canadian Indigenous Studio Art at the University of Calgary.
Susan Cahill
Susan Cahill (she/her) is a white settler scholar who lives and works in Moh’kinsstis | Calgary on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region. She is an independent filmmaker, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Calgary.
Heather Leier
Heather Leier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary. Over the course of the last decade her work has explored understandings of identity, trauma, and life-phases through printmaking, installation, and multimedia research-creation practice. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. When she isn’t teaching or working on various print projects, she is likely tending to plant cohabitants or helping to facilitate gallery programming at Alberta Printmakers Society.
Brenda Macdougall
Brenda is a Metis scholar from Western Canada and a University Research Chair in Metis Family and Community Traditions at the University of Ottawa. She has a public profile with articles in national newspapers and online forums including Shekon Neechie, an Indigenous history Site that she co-founded. She co-created the Digital Archives Database Project, an online archive of transcribed historical records, with other historians. While not an artist herself, Brenda utilizes the artistic representations in her classrooms to engage students in critical thinking and learning practices.
Erin Sutherland
Erin Sutherland is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for Museum and Heritage Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary. Her work centres of Indigenous and Canadian contemporary art and performance art. She is of setter and Métis descent.