Artist Talk with Susan Blight

Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film, and social practiceSusan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film, and social practice
Friday, March 23, 2018 - 14:00
 

Friday, March 23, 2:00 pm

Artist Talk with Susan Blight

SoCA Armouries, B31
37 University Ave., East
Free event. Public welcome
 
Susan Blight will discuss her ongoing work with Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective founded by Blight and Hayden King in January 2013 during the height of the Idle No More movement. Through public art, site-specific intervention, and social practice, Ogimaa Mikana asserts Anishinaabe self-determination on the land and in the public sphere. 
 
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.  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba, a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media, and is currently a PhD student in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT).  
 
 
Professor Brenda Francis Pelkey
(519)253-3000
Extension: 
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