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Organized in conjunction with the Department of Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, it will bring together artists, curators and academics from across Canada to discuss Aboriginal contemporary art.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The Abstract Edge
Robert Davidson, Eagle of the Dawn
Invited Speakers:
A Reel Haida Carver: The National Film Board of Canada’s construction of Robert Davidson
Carmen Robertson, First Nations University of Canada
The Tradition of Abstraction in First Nations Art
Sherry Farrell Racette, Concordia University
Mythological Encounters: The Animal Spirits of the Totem and the Giant Turtle
Guy Sioui Durand (In French)
Art of Resistance and Co-existence: Reflections on the Australian Aboriginal Acrylic Movement
Sylvie Poirier, Laval University (In French)
Freedom to dream
Mattiusi Iyaituk
Friday, May 26, 2006 – in English and French
12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Bombardier Theatre
McCord Museum
690 Sherbrooke Street West
Montréal, Quebec H3A 1E9
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