my language has no word for 'artist'

Curated by Brianna LaPlante

This exhibition runs September 23, 2023 – January 10, 2024 at Dunlop Art Gallery (Central Library)

The Indigenous curatorial mentorship program is a partnership between Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artists' Collective Inc and Dunlop Art Gallery. Recognizing the need for more Indigenous curators living and working on Treaty 4, the program aims to create a unique mentorship opportunity for an emerging Indigenous curator and provide a generative space for study, discussion, and critique.

Brianna LaPlante is this year’s mentee curator, was mentored and guided by Alyssa Fearon and Holly Aubichon. The mentee selected artwork from Regina Public Library's Permanent Collection for an exhibition this Fall at Dunlop Art Gallery.

The exhibition includes work by Jane Ash Poitras, Keith Bird, Bob Boyer, Darren Desnomie, Leah Marie Dorion, Sherry Farrell-Racette, David Garneau, Simone McLeod, and Edward Poitras, Florence Ryder.

Brianna LaPlante is a Fine Artist from Fishing Lake First Nation. LaPlante’s larger scale commissions have been sought out to elevate Treaty 4 spaces as an artist from the land. Artwork is an act of lifelong learning and resilience for her as an Anishinaabe/nehiyaw/ Michif creator. Her work is rooted within the elevation of Indigenous knowledge systems informed by the intersections of her life experiences. Underlying tones of her road to reclamation of both language and culture are present within all that she puts out into the world. This narrative is further explored through the multifaceted artworks dialing in on the evolution of culture and the dualities of existing in the two worlds of ceremony and urban life. Her artworks engage mind, body, and spirit.

Image: David Garneau, Displacement, Indigenous Scholarship, acrylic on canvas, 2019.

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