Learn how Algonquin artists work in relation to land, territory and story.

Join Algonquin artists Claire Brascoupé and Jobena Petonoquot in conversation with Danielle Printup, Indigenous Cultural Engagement Coordinator at CUAG, to discuss relation to place through creative interventions.

Learn more about their practices and the vital role of artmaking as a means of memory-keeping, custodianship, and care. Together, they will explore how their work embodies ancestral ties to land, territory, and story, continuing the reverberation of Algonquin presence across unceded territory.

This event is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments included.

Access: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC) is a fully accessible space, with an elevator and barrier-free washrooms. The Para Transpo drop-off and an entrance with ramps are located on the 290 Lisgar Street side of the building.

Parking: Paid visitor parking is available in the CDCC’s Lisgar Street lot. There is also street parking available nearby.

Participants
Claire Brascoupé is an Algonquin Anishinabe artist practicing in community-based public art with a vision to promote Algonquin culture and artists. She has experience in several public art projects in the Ottawa and Gatineau, including the Algonquin Birch Bark Basket Sculpture, Place Abinan in Gatineau, and the Algonquin Canoe sculpture, Algonquin Moose sculpture and Algonquin Birch Bark Biting Window Designs at the Pimisi LRT Station in Ottawa. She is also a digital media artist, animator and filmmaker.

Jobena Petonoquot is of Algonquin ancestry and is from Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University. She has presented her work in exhibitions and events in Quebec, Canada and the United States. In 2018, she was the first Indigenous artist to win the Impressions Residency at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Jobena’s work is in public collections including the Indigenous Art Centre at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Global Affairs and the Ottawa Art Gallery, and in numerous private collections.