CARRIE ALLISON, CORVUS ROAN, LISA BOIVIN miyo pimâtisiwin
Exhibition Run: September 24 to December 3, 2022
Opening Reception: September 24, 2022, 2pm
Artist Panel: October 1, 2022, 1pm
Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre 10124 96 St Edmonton, AB
miyo pimâtisiwin explores Indigenous health and wellness through the investigations of the constellations relationships that create a balanced good life. Centered on the pillars of the woven relations between mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health, each artist brings a personal reflection on their ideologies on Indigenous health sovereignty. Gathering inspiration and narratives from within deep connections to land, art and making and the responsibilities we share in health and wellbeing for our families, communities and nations.
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Exhibition run: September 24 to December 3, 2022
Gallery Hours: 12pm-5pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Opening Reception: September 24, 2022 2pm
Artist Panel: October 1, 2022 1pm
Accessibility notes: Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre is barrier-free and is equipped with a lift to reach upper floors and lower floor gallery. Single stall and wide stall washrooms available on every floor. Children are welcome! Change tables available in select washrooms.
ETS stops at 96 Street and Jasper (routes 2, 5, 88, 120, 308, 309), 97 Street and Jasper Avenue (3, 14, 100, 109, 161, 162). Paid city street parking and paid Impark lots available.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Edmonton Arts Council.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Carrie Allison
Carrie Allison is a nêhiýaw/cree, Métis, and mixed European descent multidisciplinary visual artist based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Her maternal roots and relations are based in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8.
Carrie’s practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw/Cree and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Her practice is rooted in research and pedagogical discourses. Allison's work seeks to reclaim, remember, recreate and celebrate her ancestry through visual discussions, as well as challenge the colonial status quo.
Allison's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Allison was the 2020 recipient of the Melissa Levin Award from the Textile Museum of Canada and was long listed for the 2021 Sobey Art Award.
Corvus Roan
Corvus Roan is a twenty-three-year-old nakota Sioux (Stoney)/ Nehiyaw (Cree) artist + storyteller based in Amiskwaciwaskahikan (so-called Edmonton, AB)
His work depicts and focuses on the visual and artistic representations of two spirit/indigqueer identities, bodies, lives.
As an artist he focuses on harm reduction and its relationship to his life and work as well. His goal as an artist is to curate artistic works that represent the kinship, and the resilience that these identities intersect on.Through illustrations, painting, and even storytelling the work deals with themes of identity, belonging, and community, and the hardships experienced through it as a Two Spirit person.His main focuses are to continue sharing these perspectives, opening these conversations, and even exploring the discomfort it takes to grow from it all.
Lisa Boivin
Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kue First Nation. She is a bioethicist, healthcare educator and children’s author who uses images as a pedagogical tool to bridge gaps between medical ethics and aspects of Indigenous cultures and worldviews. She paints, collages, and orates image-based stories that address the colonial barriers Indigenous patients navigate in the current healthcare system. Lisa strives to humanize clinical medicine as she situates her art in the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images.