MAP Presentation Series: February 2022

Indigenous Contemporary Memorials: Art as Social Medicine

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David Garneau (Métis) is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. His practice includes painting, curation, and critical art writing. He recently curated Kahwatsiretátie: The Contemporary Native Art Biennial (Montreal) with assistance from Faye Mullen and rudi aker; co-curated, with Kathleen Ash Milby, Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound, National Museum of the American Indian, New York; With Secrecy and Despatch, with Tess Allas, for the Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia; and Moving Forward, Never Forgetting, with Michelle LaVallee, at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina. Garneau has given keynote talks in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and throughout Canada on issues such as: misappropriation; public art; museum display; and contemporary Indigenous art. His art appears in exhibitions nationally and internationally. He just completed a major public art work, the Tawatina Bridge paintings, for the City of Edmonton.