Sunday, August 17, 10:45 – 11:45 am
The Garrick Theatre, Bonavista
Speakers: Sarah Baikie & Ella Jacque, Larry Weyand, Clara Clayton Gough, Daniel Rumbolt
Moderator: Michelle LaVallee
This conversation features artists who work in diverse media and practices yet share a commitment to materiality, process, and slow making. Inspired by craft traditions both local and global, the artists draw on research, study, and intergenerational knowledge transfer, highlighting the dedication, skill and time that goes into handmaking.
Moderator bio:
Michelle LaVallee is a mother, curator, and inaugural Director of the Indigenous Ways and Decolonization Department at the National Gallery of Canada, and Director of Indigenous curatorial initiatives. She is Anishinaabe (Ojibway) and a member of the Neyaashiingmiing Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation in Cape Croker, Ontario. She is also of English/Scottish/French descent through her mother. LaVallee has developed nationally touring exhibitions, including Radical Stitch (2022-2025), the largest contemporary beadwork exhibition to date, which she co-curated with colleagues Sherry Farrell Racette and Cathy Mattes, organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Guided by decolonial and Indigenous methodologies, LaVallee works to challenge historical relationships with art and history institutions towards new ways of engaging with people, space, and the land.