Friday, June 20 - July 12
EXHIBITION:
Christi Belcourt: Off the Map:
Perspectives of Land and Water in Ontario
and Mary Anne Barkhouse: Wake
In collaboration with Artspace and the Art Gallery of Peterborough

Opening Friday June 20 at 7 pm
Christi Belcourt will be giving a lecture/artist talk entitled: NAMING PLACE: An Aboriginal Perspective of Land, Water & Maps at 7:30, followed by Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson presenting her lecture: Taking Care of Gdoo-naaganinaa, Our Dish.

Artspace
378 Aylmer St. N. Peterborough
Tuesday to Friday 12:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday 12:00 - 4:00 pm

Much more information about the exhibition...

Christi Belcourt is a Metis visual artist with a deep respect for the traditions and knowledge of her people, the majority of her work explores and celebrates the beauty of the natural world. Author of Medicines To Help Us (study prints & book, based on painting of same title; Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2007), Christi has won recognition for her fine artistry through numerous awards and prizes. Her work has been commissioned by the Gabriel Dumont Institute (Saskatoon, 2004), the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Centre for Traditional Knowledge & Museum of Nature (Ottawa, 2002), and is found in the permanent collections of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Indian and Inuit Art Centre, Canadian Museum of Civilization, First People's Hall, and the Gabriel Dumont Institute. Christi is a past recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Métis Nation of Ontario. Christi has been studying traditional plants (identification of, stories of, medicinal uses for, names in Michif and Cree) on her own for numerous years. She lives and works in Whitefish Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Mary Anne Barkhouse was born in 1961 in Vancouver, BC. She belongs to the Nimpkish band, Kwakiutl First Nation and is a descendant of a long line of internationally recognized artists that includes Ellen Neel, Mungo Martin and Charlie James. She graduated with Honours from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and has exhibited and lectured widely across Canada. Working with a variety of media Barkhouse examines environmental concerns and indigenous culture through the use of animal imagery. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Barkhouse’s work can be found in the collections of the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Archives of Ontario, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. In addition she has public art installations at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario in London, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Millennium Walkway in Peterborough, Ontario.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a leading Indigenous researcher, writer, educator and activist. She is a citizen of the Nishnaabeg nation, with family roots in the Mississauga community of Alderville First Nation. Leanne holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba and works with Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada and internationally on issues regarding land, politics, governance and Indigenous Knowledge. Leanne will speak about taking care of our Dish, Gdoo-naaganinaa, an ancient Nishnaabeg way of referring to our territory and our relationships with other nations.