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Dreaming of a more ruthless culture: ruminations and reflections on past and recent conversations, readings and encounters. Images included—“safety not guaranteed.”

Born and raised in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Zeke Moores explores the social and political economies of everyday objects and our complex relationships to them. By relying on traditional and industrial methods of manufacturing, Moores literal and metaphoric “recasts” seemingly unimportant mass-produced objects and everyday commodities; questioning their initial creation and the ideologies behind them.

Bart Willis is a tattooer living in Austin, Texas.  He grew up in Lethbridge and went to the University of Lethbridge in the 1980s.  Bart moved to Austin in 1990 with the crazy notion that he was going to become a rock star.  That didn’t happen.  What did happen was that the tattoo bug that he had caught in Alberta turned into a calling that became a career in the early nineties.  At a time when tattooing was still risqué and underground Bart honed his craft by tattooing anywhere people wanted tattoos; boats, back porches, parties, the Ringling Brothers circus train …eventually in 2002 he o

Bart Willis is a tattooer living in Austin, Texas.  He grew up in Lethbridge and went to the University of Lethbridge in the 1980s.  Bart moved to Austin in 1990 with the crazy notion that he was going to become a rock star.  That didn’t happen.  What did happen was that the tattoo bug that he had caught in Alberta turned into a calling that became a career in the early nineties.  At a time when tattooing was still risqué and underground Bart honed his craft by tattooing anywhere people wanted tattoos; boats, back porches, parties, the Ringling Brothers circus train …eventually in 2002 he o

Jenna Stanton will be speaking on following her passion for Ceramics, the Arts and Creative Placemaking.  Jenna received her BFA in Ceramics at the Alberta College of Art & Design and her Masters in Ceramic Design from Staffordshire University in ‘the potteries’ of Stoke on Trent, England.  Currently working at Medalta potteries as the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Jenna also creates out of  Medalta’s international artists in residence studios, she is interested in Creative Placemaking and the role of creating community and viable arts organizations.

Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist, Colleen Cutschall, is Professor Emerita from Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba. She initially began teaching there in Native Studies in 1985 and in 1989 took on the Visual and Aboriginal Art program. By 2003 she was awarded the BFA from the province making it a full department with five majors, including Aboriginal Art.  She retired from the university in 2012 and is snow-birding in Spearfish, SD and returns to Manitoba after the snow melts. She is a dual US/Canadian citizen.

Jenna Stanton will be speaking on her ceramic practise and process alongside her career in the arts.  Currently working at Medalta potteries as the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Jenna also creates out of  Medalta’s international artists in residence studios.  She received her BFA in Ceramics at the Alberta College of Art & design and her Masters in Ceramic Design from Staffordshire University in ‘the potteries’ of Stoke on Trent, England. 

Am I That Name? Feminism and the Category of Women in the Art Museum

Based in an intuitive, material studio practice, Espezel’s work inhabits a feminist-phenomenological discourse, utilizing an intentional engagement with the power and necessity of vulnerability. The work confronts the limits and conceptual dilemmas inherent within representation/mimesis, while striving for corporeal embodiment. The manifestation of anxieties (realized in both psychological and physiological states), empathy, otherness, and the “autobiographical” as a source of influence in interpretation and production, are current thematic concerns.

Reading Architecture: Contemporary Approaches to Structure as Text.