Beading With Our Sisters: DuFresne / Grussani / Koebel / Michaud
Saturday, 26 September, 2pm to 4pm
Carleton University Art Gallery
CUAG, Gallery 101, and the Walking With Our Sisters Ottawa Committee are pleased to invite you to join in a conversation on the histories, meanings, and personal practices of beading with Lucie DuFresne, Jaime Koebel, and Benny Michaud, moderated by Linda Grussani.
The conversation will be followed by an informal show of the panelists’ beaded works and a bead-in. Beginners are welcome, and all supplies will be provided.
Participants:
Dr. Lucie DuFresne received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa. At the University of Ottawa, she taught in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Dr. DuFresne is an experienced archivist and museologist, with a wide range of interests and specialties. Her current project on the history of lace in Canada is built on her knowledge of religious orders, women's participation in the French Canadian, Métis and Aboriginal economies, and the religious history of Québec and Ontario.
Linda Grussani is the Director of the Aboriginal Art Centre at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. She has worked in the Indigenous and Canadian art departments at the National Gallery of Canada and was key to the research and development of the Art of This Land permanent exhibition. She is also currently pursuing a PhD at Queens University in Cultural Studies.
Jaime Koebel is a Nehiyaw/Apeetagosan artist from Lac La Biche, Alberta. She learned to bead on her own at 12 years old when she went to visit her German step-grandmother, who was dismayed that she didn't know how to bead. So she took Jaime to a bead store and there she picked up her first supplies and taught herself loom beading. In her twenties, Jaime learned flower beadwork techniques from Christi Belcourt. Jaime also practices other Métis traditional arts such as fish scale art, moose/caribou hair tufting and birch biting. She has a dance group called "Prairie Fire" and is the owner of Indigenous Walks, a company offering tours of downtown Ottawa from an Indigenous perspective.
Benny Michaud is a Michif/Metis woman originally from Winnipeg. She currently works in the field of child and youth mental health and believes strongly in the use of cultural practices like beadwork as therapeutic interventions. She is passionate about exploring the intersection between beadwork and well-being. Benny currently represents the Metis community in Ottawa as president of the Ottawa Regional Metis Council.
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Carleton University Art Gallery is funded by Carleton University, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the Government of Ontario), and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Gallery 101 acknowledges a project grant from the Community Foundation of Ottawa for the presentation in Ottawa of Walking With Our Sisters. Gallery 101 is funded by the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the Government of Ontario), and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Vamps by Jaime Koebel/Photo by Christi Belcourt
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