Facilitated and hosted by the NIC Fine Art Department, the Artist Talk series invites Canadian contemporary artists to come and speak about their creative art practice.
Each lecture lasts one hour, features an image presentation of the artist's work and is followed by an open question-and-answer period. It is an opportunity to meet professional artists and hear them speak first-hand about how and why they create their artwork.
The dialogue of professional art practice integrates visual communication, cultural theory, art-based research, community engagement, and technical skill development in art production, as well as grant, exhibition and mentorship opportunities.
Artist bio
Christine Kirouac is a Winnipeg-based Métis artist/writer whose interdisciplinary projects are a negotiation of (dis)placement and (non)acceptance. She crafts provocative work through a lens of humour, fearlessness, personal intimacy and experience that exposes struggles to translate and transcribe “belonging”.
Accomplishments include teaching in Canada and North Carolina, multiple residencies at the Banff Centre and Vermont Studio Centre and numerous grants from the Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board. From 2013 to 2015, she was co-owner and director/curator of art fairs New Material (Miami Art Basel), Verge Soho (NY) and Multiples; Critical Craft and Visual Culture Fair (Chicago, Il.).
Kirouac has exhibited her work extensively across Canada and internationally. This is her first time exhibiting in BC and the premier of The Recipe Project with the Comox Valley Art Gallery in Courtenay.
