Artist / Curator Talk with Taqralik Partridge and Linda Grussani
Wednesday, April 17 – 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond Street West Toronto ON
In partnership with Native Women in the Arts, please join us for an exclusive Artist / Curator Talk with Taqralik Partridge and Linda Grussani, as they discuss the exhibition ᐳᓛᖃᑎᒌᑦ(Pulaaqatigiit) and share their experience developed during a global pandemic and the richness of Indigenous wisdom bridging physical and virtual spaces.
ᐳᓛᖃᑎᒌᑦ(Pulaaqatigiit) runs through May 18, 2024. Read more about ᐳᓛᖃᑎᒌᑦ(Pulaaqatigiit) here
Register here: https://bit.ly/3IpoMoY
Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family
About the Artist
Taqralik Partridge is an artist, writer, spoken word poet, and curator from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. Her artwork has been showcased both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at venues such as the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Radical Stitch), Carleton University Art Gallery (The Baroness von Elsa Project), Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Among All These Tundras), and the Sydney Biennale in Australia.
Partridge's performance work has been featured on CBC radio one, and she has toured with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. In 2020, she published a book of poetry titled curved against the hull of a peterhead.
About the Curator
Linda Grussani (Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg/Italian ancestry) is a curator, art historian and former arts administrator born, raised, and residing on Anishinàbe Akì in the Ottawa area.
For more than 20 years, Grussani has been dedicated to advancing Indigenous arts and culture, promoting positive structural change, and advancing Indigenous cultural diplomacy as a curator, arts administrator, academic, and mentor.
Grussani is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Cultural Studies program at Queen's University. Her research focuses on the recommendations, policies, and methodologies that have influenced the relationships between Indigenous people and institutions in museums and galleries on Anishinàbe Akì over the last 50 years.
ᐳᓛᖃᑎᒌᑦ(Pulaaqatigiit), part of the Mawadishiwewin (visits) exhibition series, is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario through the Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse program.
