DAY 2 - Sat Dec 4
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Opening Party
Event Type:
On-site

Opening party for Greg Staats, Alan Michelson, Shuvinai Ashoona.
Cash Bar and Hors d’oeuvres
About the Artists

Greg Staats
Greg Staats is Skarù:reˀ[Tuscarora] / Kanien’kehá:ka [Mohawk], Hodinöhsö:ni’. b. 1963, Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. A Toronto-based artist whose Hodinöhsö:ni restorative aesthetic employs mnemonics of condolence and performative burdens articulated in visual forms that hold body and place including oral transmission, text works, embodied wampum, photographic, sculpture, installation and video. Staats' practice conceptualizes... Read more

Alan Michelson
Alan Michelson is an internationally recognized New York-based artist, curator, writer, lecturer and Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. For over thirty years, he has been a leading practitioner of a socially engaged, critically aware, site-specific art grounded in local context and informed by the retrieval of repressed histories. Recent exhibitions include... Read more

Shuvinai Ashoona
Celebrated for her large-scale drawings, enigmatic subject matter, and collaborative work with contemporary artists, Shuvinai Ashoona (b. 1961) is a third-generation Inuit artist living in Kinngait, Nunavut. The dramatic changes in the North—the shift from life on the land to settled communities and access to popular culture—are reflected in her art, which overturns stereotypical notions of Inuit art.... Read more