GUIDING BONDS
Closing Discussion
Event
Closing Discussion
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
In this Closing Discussion, Peter Morin, Nicole Neidhardt and Justine Woods will share their experience with reciprocal mentorship and their mentor-mentee roles using the Kaska phrase, translated here into English, as a prompt: I am moved and changed by the works you’ve shared with me.
Peter Morin
Speaker
Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator. Throughout his artistic practice, Morin investigates the impact zones that occur when Indigenous practices collide with Western-settler colonialism. Morin’s artworks are shaped, and reshaped, by Tahltan epistemological production and often takes the form of performance interventions. In addition to his exhibition history, Morin has curated exhibition for the Museum of Anthropology, Western Front, Bill Reid Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery. In 2016, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievements by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist. Morin holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto.
Justine Woods
Speaker
Justine Woods is a garment artist, designer, creative scholar, and educator. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Media and Design Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. Justine’s research and design practice centres Indigenous fashion technologies and garment-making as practice-based methods of inquiry toward re-stitching alternative worlds that prioritize Indigenous resurgence and liberation. Justine was born and raised in Tiny, Ontario, and is a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community from the St. Onge and Berger-Beaudoin families.
Nicole neidhardt
Speaker
Nicole Neidhardt is Diné (Navajo) of Kiiyaa’áanii Clan on her mother’s side and a blend of European ancestry on her father’s side. She is an artist and illustrator whose Diné identity is the heart of her practice. She is passionate about giving back to Indigenous communities through her art and sees illustration as a beautiful, loving way to share Indigenous stories.
She has a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from OCAD University. She has a multi-disciplinary arts practice and has been loving working in the field of children’s book illustration. She has illustrated When We Are Kind, written by Monique Gray Smith; the cover of Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith; and the fall 2022 release of the YA Adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, adapted by Monique Gray Smith. She is currently living in Toronto, ON, and spends her days drinking coffee, illustrating, and taking her dog, Bannock, on long walks throughout the East End.
Fun Fact: I studied Indigenous Futurisms in my Masters’ and now I know how to Time Travel.