Art Credit

Presented in partnership with the Indigenous Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) and Wilfrid Laurier University Press (WLU Press). The digital version precedes a print edition to be published at a later date as part of WLU Press’s Indigenous series.

Tarah Hogue is a curator, writer, and cultural worker based in the Treaty 6 and 7 territories and the Métis homeland. In 2020, she became Remai Modern’s inaugural Curator (Indigenous Art) and recently transitioned to Adjunct Curator. Previously, she held curatorial fellowships at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, served as a visiting curator at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, and was curator-in-residence at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Her recent curatorial projects include Storied Objects: Métis Art in Relation (2022), with advisor Sherry Farrell Racette, which received an AAMC Award for Excellence, and the mid-career survey and monograph Adrian Stimson: Maanipokaa’iini (2021). In 2019, Hogue received the Hnatyshyn Foundation-TD Bank Group Award for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art. She has authored catalogue essays for artists such as Maureen Gruben, Henry Tsang, Tania Willard, and Jin-me Yoon, and her writing has appeared in C Magazine, Canadian Art, The Capilano Review, and elsewhere. She holds a master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Queen's University. Raised in central Alberta, Hogue is of Métis and white settler ancestry and is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, with relatives from the Red River communities of St. Charles and St. François Xavier in Manitoba.

Jennifer Robinson is a settler-Canadian (English/Irish/Scottish) visual anthropologist living on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Currently, she is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria and a Research Associate with the Visual Stories Lab, where she has contributed various curatorial, collections, education, and repatriation projects since 2012. Jennifer is also a Research Associate with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research where since 2021, she has taken part in several harm reduction-focused projects under the Canadian Managed Alcohol Program Study. Since 2019, she has worked as a freelance consultant on behalf of museums, galleries, cultural centres, and Indigenous nations on various projects that support community-engaged advocacy through creative and participatory research methods and collaborations.