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Plant Printmaking Workshop with Laura Grier
This workshop is happening on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at 2pm at the Collision Gallery. Capacity is limited. Please click the link below to register.
https://www.artworxto.ca/event/plant-print-making-workshop-with-laura-grier
This workshop will show you how to use different kinds of plants to create prints on paper. Not only can we learn what kind of plants are around us, we can appreciate the natural essence and shapes these plants make. Participants will learn how to print plants and leaves found in or outside their homes onto cards, postcards and cloth. They will also learn about the origins of the plants around them and discover the Indigenous names for some common urban plants. Plants and materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own plants to print with.
Workshop facilitator: Laura Grier is a Délı̨nę Dene artist and printmaker, born in Somba ké (Yellowknife), and raised in Alberta. Through the use of traditional print mediums, they instrumentalize the power of the handmade to reflect various Indigenous methodologies. They hold a BFA from NSCADU and an MFA from OCAD University. Follow Laura @lalalauragr
About the Curator
Emma Steen is a freelance curator, writer, and Community Relations Manager for the Indigenous Curatorial Collective. Born and raised in Toronto, her area of interest lies in art that explores bodies, sex and love with anti-colonial intention. Her background also includes extensive work in community arts organizing and supporting methods of institutional accountability.
Emma has worked extensively as a writer and editor, contributing her writing to Canadian arts & culture magazines and art galleries. A graduate from OCAD’s CADN Master's program, she was awarded the Master's Thesis/MRP Writing Award in 2020 for her paper, “Why the 90s Were so Sexy: locating sexuality, pleasure and desire in work produced by Indigenous women identified artists during the 1990s and early 2000s in Canada.”
Twitter: steen_emma
A Battlefield Medicinal Herb Living Green Under the Snow
A Battlefield Medicinal Herb Living Green Under the Snow is an installation in which sourced yarrow plants sit in custom-printed pots and in conversation with photographs and text. The result is a poetic map to a space of self-care. This work examines the complexities of care and conviviality for Indigenous women in the face of ongoing genocide and the relationship of those complexities to space. Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film and social practice. Her work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan joined OCAD University as Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture and as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Kǝdǝdzǝ́hehtsį
When there are no words, you make them. I cannot speak my Dene language, so my uncertainty of it all was like walking in the dark trying to find a path of many paths. The word I was wanting to see was “care”, but there is no current word for “care” in Sahtú Kǝdǝ. At least, not the “care” I think of. My care and my love may look different from yours. It is my own personal heart’s mind. I chose Tse [wood] as the vessel, and Mokulito as the process, to express (and show Tse) these elemental feelings of care. Laura Grier is a Délı̨nę Dene artist and printmaker, born in Somba ké (Yellowknife), and raised in Alberta. Through the use of traditional print mediums, they instrumentalize the power of the handmade to reflect various Indigenous methodologies. They hold a BFA from NSCADU and an MFA from OCAD University.
