We’re excited to launch Indigenous Narratives in Art, a new ICCA podcast dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices shaping contemporary curatorial practice, art writing, and community-led arts futures. Each episode invites listeners into conversations with Indigenous artists, curators, writers, and knowledge carriers, offering insight into the relationships, mentorship, and community accountability that guide our work.

Listen to the ICCA podcast Indigenous Narratives in Art.

The Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA) is now accepting applications for the 2026 Aotearoa Delegation Program, supporting six Indigenous curators to attend major exhibitions, festivals, and international events. This initiative fosters professional development, cultural exchange, and connection with the global Indigenous arts community. Delegates will have opportunities to visit events, gain insight into international curatorial practice, strengthen professional networks, and share perspectives with other Indigenous curators.

Learn more about the Delegation Program and Apply Now.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Saskatchewan for the 2025 ICCA Gathering: Kisik | Skywatching the Future, held November 12–15 across Regina and Saskatoon. Your presence made this milestone year truly meaningful.

Kisik | Skywatching the Future marked 20 years of Indigenous curatorial inclusion—a moment to honour where we’ve been and to imagine what the next 20 years can hold. Across four days of panels, workshops, performances, and community events, we reflected on the depth of Indigenous leadership, creative practice, and relationship-building that continues to shape our work.

Thank you for celebrating this anniversary with us and for helping carry this vision forward.

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The ICCA’s Curatorial Mentorship Program is a national initiative nurturing the next generation of Indigenous curators through mentorship, collaborative exhibition-making, and critical discourse. This year’s theme, Echo Lines, brings together emerging and senior Indigenous curators in a year-long dialogue, combining research, writing, and hands-on exhibition development across Ottawa/Gatineau. The resulting essays reflect on peer-led learning, relational practice, and collective curatorial vision, offering insight into how Indigenous knowledge and mentorship shape contemporary curatorial practice.

Read the Curatorial Essays and learn about our Curatorial Mentorship Program.

The ICCA’s Virtual Resource Center (VRC) is a growing online hub of tools, guides, handbooks, best practices, publications, and career resources for Indigenous artists, curators, writers, and arts workers. It also includes a searchable database of grants and funding opportunities, all curated to reflect Indigenous priorities, perspectives, and methodologies. The VRC supports learning, research, and professional growth in one accessible, community-informed space.

Visit and explore the Virtual Resource Center (VRC).

The Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA) is honoured to be the main partner of this month’s Sun/Shade Curators’ Tour at The Bentway, a guided walk reflecting on how public art creates space for gathering, storytelling, and seasonal change. Featuring Willard Art’s Declaration of the Understory, the tour draws on Indigenous Futures to explore how land, memory, and artistic practice intertwine. ICCA’s nativeprince.pdf will share reflections rooted in Relational Practice, while guests receive a limited-edition artist multiple by C.L. Battle, inspired by plants that thrive together—a poetic gesture of care for one another and the land.

Read more about the Sun/Shade Curators’ Tour.