Join curator Noa Bronstein and exhibiting artist Sikapinakii Low Horn for an in-person conversation about our new exhibitions Structural Integrity and IMIITAIKS’IISTSIK’OONI.
Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto, whose practice is often focused on the social production of space and thinking through how artists disrupt and subvert systems including those registering across social, political and economic structures.
Noa has previously stewarded two leading artist-run centres through her role as the Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and Gallery TPW. In 2018, in her position as Senior Curator at the City of Mississauga, she oversaw the opening of the Small Arms Inspection Building with programming by local and international artists, including Diane Borsato, Stephanie Comilang, Amy Malbeuf, Dawit L. Petros and Kara Springer, and partnerships with the Peel Aboriginal Network and the Toronto Biennial of Art, amongst many others. Noa has curated and programmed projects/exhibitions at institutions across Canada, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Contemporary Calgary, The Rooms (St. John’s), Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto) and The New Gallery (Calgary). Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Border Crossings, C Magazine, Canadian Art, esse art + opinions and The Journal of Curatorial Studies. Noa is currently the Assistant Director of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Sikapinakii Low Horn is a member of the Siksika First Nation which is a part of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. They graduated with their Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019 and are currently attending the University of Calgary as a Master of Fine Arts graduate student. Low Horn is researching Blackfoot Cowboys in Alberta but their overall practice as a mixed media is to tell the stories of their people. Educating others about the Blackfoot people in hopes of creating a comfortable space for all.
Their exhibition Structural Integrity and IMIITAIKS’IISTSIK’OONI will be on view at the Gallery until NEW DATE
The Articulations Art Lecture Series offers presentations from contemporary practicing artists and arts professionals. Local and international artists, curators, critics, art historians, theorists, and filmmakers share their practice and engage with the audience in open, critical discussion.
Virtual ASL Interpretation Services may be provided upon request by Deaf & Hear Alberta. For accommodation, contact Program and Event Coordinator Heather Kehoe at hkehoe@saag.ca or Associate Curator Adam Whitford at awhitford@saag.ca.