Day 3 - Sat Dec 7
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Material Matters
Venue: Great Hall
7 Hart House Circle, Hart House, University of Toronto
Event Type:
On-site

About the Artists
Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Koyukon) is a mixed-media visual artist whose family hails from the North Slope and Interior of Alaska. Her work focuses on the changing North and our relationship to nature and each other. Through visual art, community engagement, curation and advocacy, Kelliher-Combs works to create opportunities to feature Indigenous voices and contemporary artwork that inform... Read more
Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist interested in the interplay between people and their environments, exploring how circumstance shapes our sense of self. Her work employs various mediums to convey the intricate relationship between identity and movement. This movement manifests not only through a depiction of a transition from one place to another but also as... Read more
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Sugpiaq homelands are in the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska. Her artistic practice spans video, sculpture, and dance in museums. Sensation, embodied inquiry, scores, rehearsal, and being in relation (to ancestral belongings, communities, and weather) structure her work. Through citation of Indigenous peoples' lived experience and cultural work, she honours practices and lineages... Read more
Wanda Nanibush
Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. Based in Toronto, Nanibush is the founding director of aabaakwad, an international yearly gathering of over 80 Indigenous curators, writers and artists for talks and performances that last took place at Venice Biennale and is in Toronto Dec... Read more