Monday January 23 12-4PM
Calling all prospective Indigenous OCAD U students! Looking for feedback on your portfolio? Have questions about the application process? Hoping to meet Indigenous faculty and student support staff? Would you like to hear from a recent alumni?
Join us in the Indigenous Student Centre for Wáhlu Noondaaptóone on Monday January 23, from 12-4PM. Prospective students will have the opportunity to meet individually with one or all of our guests! Please bring your questions, along with your work or images of your work.
This is a drop-in session, however we are asking those interested to register here. This session is prioritizing the participation of prospective Indigenous OCAD U students however current Indigenous OCAD U students are also welcome to attend.
Guests
Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is co-founder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads and landmarks of Anishinaabeg territory with Anishinaabemowin and is a member of the Indigenous Routes artist collective which works to provide free new media training for Indigenous youth. Susan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media. She is currently a PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) and her dissertation looks at the visual and spatial formations of Anishinaabeg geographies of resistance. Susan is Delaney Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
Sadie Red Wing is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of Fort Totten, North Dakota. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as, encourages academia to include an indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT).
Camille Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene /Scottish scholar, arts administrator, and writer from Galiano Island, British Columbia, unceded territories of the Penelakut and Lamalcha First Nations as well as other Hul’q’umi’num-speaking peoples, and is the ceded traditional territories of Tsawwassen First Nation. Usher is Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Faculty of Arts & Science at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario. Usher completed her MA in Art History at Concordia University. Her thesis, “more than just flesh: the arts as resistance and sexual empowerment,” focused on how the arts may be used as a tool to engage Indigenous youth in discussions of health and sexuality. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University; her research-creation work looks at the many ways in which peoples move together through space, intimacies with the everyday, and how public art becomes a portal for gathering. Usher served for several years as Executive Director of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective, and currently serves on the Boards of the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Galiano Literary Festival. *Please note Camille will be available to meet with prospective students between 1-4pm*
Serafina Shirt (Indigenous Admissions & Recruitment Coordinator)
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