The ICCA builds relationships for Indigenous artists and curators by supporting equitable collaboration and exchange within larger arts communities.

What role does ‘care’ play in your practice? How do our individual Indigenous identities inform how we take care and how we work?

We view the Curator as having a critical role in caring for community, for objects or artworks, each other or ourselves, and the spaces in which we engage with the arts. Our goal with “Curating Care” is to highlight the stories of Indigenous curators who generate incredible amounts of care through their practices in order to show how important and generous the work of curators often is. We consider how care is located in our practices to point to the many intersections of Indigenous knowledges and curatorial methodologies essential in the work that we do.

It has become clear that a majority of the public is unaware of the important role that curators and arts professionals have in developing and enriching local cultural identities. Through this project we are working from Indigenous curatorial methodologies, showing how we are all responsible facilitators of care in our own ways from diverse communities.

The ICCA’s broad vision is to support and connect Indigenous curators and arts creatives. Following our mandate, this project aims to highlight and share the impact Indigenous curators and arts creatives have in shaping cultural landscapes and to reflect our community of Indigenous creative excellence.

 Carrie Allison - Curating Care

Freja Carmichael - Curating Care

Francine Cunningham - Curating Care

Michael Cywink - Curating Care

Vanessa Dion Fletcher - Curating Care

Violet Duncan - Curating Care

Tyrone Elliott - Curating Care

Pancarita Farinango - Curating Care

Jessica Lea Fleming - Curating Care

Jenny Fraser - Curating Care

 Felicia Gay - Curating Care

Laura Grier - Curating Care

 Adrienne Huard - Curating Care

Geronimo Inutiq - Curating Care

Natalie King - Curating Care

Renee Lavoie - Curating Care

Brenda MacIntyre - Curating Care

Maria Margaretta - Curating Care

 Corrina McKay - Curating Care

 Stanley Moore - Curating Care

 Audie Murray - Curating Care

Evelyn Pakinewatik - Curating Care

Jacquie Potvin-Boucher - Curating Care

 Sonia Robertson - Curating Care

Natash Matila Smith - Curating Care

Logan Staats - Curating Care

 Josh Tengan - Curating Care

Sissy Thiessen - Curating Care

Morval Vukson - Curating Care

 Cora-Allan Wickliffe - Curating Care