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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

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.

“Another Part of the Circle”: Positioning the Native Modern and the Contemporary Indigenous In and Out of (Art) History

This lecture explores works made to pay homage to Norval Morrisseau, a very significant First Nations artist. Examining the connection of works by 20th and 21st century artists with diverse practices allows us to consider intergenerational relationships and rethink art historical periodizations using Cree playwright Tomson Highway’s description of life and death as a journey to “another part of the circle.”

Canadian Museums, First Nations, and Repatriation

Mouvelle Artworks

Donald Lawrence teaches in the Visual Arts program at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada. He holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from York University. Through gallery and landscape-based projects his artistic practice explores the meeting place of urban and wilderness culture. Such projects as the kayak/camera-obscura and the Quidi Vidi Camera Obscura relate his interests in sea kayaking and the ocean environment to a long-standing fascination with pre-photographic optical apparatuses.