Jaimie Isaac: Nibi/Water and Art
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Jaimie Isaac
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Faculty of Arts & Science
Faculty of Arts & Science
Free
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Faculty of Arts & Science
Faculty of Arts & Science
Free
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Guest Speaker: Jaimie Isaac
Join us for a special talk with artist and curator, Jaimie Isaac!
Nibi/Water and Art:
Isaac will present work and research that provides visual indications of the state and presence of waterways by sharing a culmination of work produced at the University of Manitoba Just Waters Project, with the Center of Human Rights Research and throughout her curatorial practice.
Through various life ways, Isaac is working on reclaiming and restoring a relationship with water, and honouring the continuum of sustained relationships that community has maintained for millennia. People globally recognize that water is sacred, and countries have passed groundbreaking laws granting legal personhood status to their water systems, honoring the Indigenous peoples' perspective of waters as relatives and ancestors.
Biography:
Jaimie Isaac is a curator and interdisciplinary artist, Anishinaabe member of Sagkeeng First Nation and is of British heritage. As the Curatorial Researcher with the University of Manitoba Center for Human Rights Research, she is researching with the Just Waters project in 2025/27. She was the Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria from 2021-2023 and advisor 2023-2024. As the Curator of Contemporary and Indigenous Arts at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 2015-2021, she was awarded the Canadian Museums Association outstanding achievement award in the exhibitions category with the Boarder X exhibition. Isaac received the Winnipeg Art Council’s Mayor Award for Community Impact in 2025 and University of Winnipeg's Distinguished Alumni Award for Community Impact, 2025. She is co-director/co-founder of ROSEMARY Gallery/SKOOL, a roving project space. Interests in reconciliation, resistance, resilience, decolonization in art and in sport, Indigenous feminism, environmental justice, language and cultural resurgence.
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