Please join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for a conversation between Meryl McMaster and Steven Loft, in conjunction with the exhibition Meryl McMaster: Confluence. They will be discussing the artist’s explorations of identity, representation, storytelling, and the environment through photographic self-portraiture.

Meryl McMaster is a Canadian-based artist and a graduate in photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her artistic practice begins with photography, evoking a journey that follows a path of self-discovery. She is interested in exploring questions of how we construct our sense of self through lineage, history, and culture. McMaster is the recipient of the Canon Canada Prize, the Nora E. Vaughan Award, the Design Medal from OCAD, the Vistek Photography Award, Heartline Pictures Award, and SNAP!Stars TD Award.

Steven Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations with Jewish heritage. He is currently Coordinator, Aboriginal Arts Office with the Canada Council for the Arts. A curator, scholar, writer, and media artist, in 2010 he was named Trudeau National Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto. Loft has also held positions as Curator-In-Residence, Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Director/Curator of the Urban Shaman Gallery (Winnipeg); Aboriginal Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Producer and Artistic Director of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association (Hamilton). He has curated group and solo exhibitions across Canada and internationally; written extensively for magazines, catalogues, and arts publications, and lectured widely in Canada and internationally. Loft co-edited the books Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art (Banff Centre Press, 2005) and Coded Territories: Indigenous Pathways in New Media (University of Calgary Press, 2014).

Admission is free and everyone is welcome! Light refreshments will be provided. Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale at the tunnel entrance starting at 5:45 p.m. See the "visiting" page of CUAG's website for details on parking and public transit routes.

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