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She designs jewelry featuring Indigenous languages in a recent project titled Mad Aunty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nomadeandmode.net/joi-arcand-mad-aunty-jewellery-design/|title=Joi T Arcand {{!}} visual artist & Mad Aunty jewellery designer|last=Nomadeandmode|date=2018-10-28|website=Nomade & Mode|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>
She designs jewelry featuring Indigenous languages in a recent project titled Mad Aunty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nomadeandmode.net/joi-arcand-mad-aunty-jewellery-design/|title=Joi T Arcand {{!}} visual artist & Mad Aunty jewellery designer|last=Nomadeandmode|date=2018-10-28|website=Nomade & Mode|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>

Arcand currently acts as the Director of the Nordic Lab - a new space dedicated to artists from the circumpolar region - at [[Artist run centre|artist-run-centre]] SAW Gallery in Ottawa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artsfile.ca/they-came-they-saw-and-they-renovated-gallery-in-arts-court-gets-a-facelift/|title=They came, they SAW and they renovated: Gallery in Arts Court gets a facelift – ARTSFILE|last=Simpson|first=Peter|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-25}}</ref>


== Exhibitions ==
== Exhibitions ==

Revision as of 19:45, 25 March 2019

Joi Arcand
Born
Joi T. Arcand

1982 (age 41–42)
Hafford, Saskatchewan
NationalityMuskeg Lake Cree Nation
Alma materUniversity of Saskatchewan
Known forPhotography
Websitejoitarcand.com

Joi T. Arcand (born 1982) is a nehiyaw photo-based artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, who currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario.[1] In addition to art, Arcand focuses on publishing, art books, zines, collage and accessibility to art.[2][3]

Early life and education

Arcand was born in 1982 in Hafford, Saskatchewan. She grew up on Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan. She spent many summers working in the Muskeg Lake Archives which gave Arcand her love of old photographs and history.[4] Arcand later attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Great Distinction in 2005.[5] She began making artwork that addressed her identity in the second year of her studies at the University, at which point she decided to focus on photography and printmaking. Her first photography projects were in direct response to the images of photographer Edward S. Curtis, who was working in the early 1900s.[2]

Work

Arcand has served as chair of the board of directors for Paved Art and New Media in Saskatoon, and along with Felicia Gay was the co-founder of the Red Shift Gallery, a contemporary Aboriginal art gallery also in Saskatoon that was in operation from 2006 to 2010.[6][7]

She was the founder of Kimiwan, a 'zine for Indigenous artists and writers that published eight issues from 2012 to 2014. Arcand curated the zine with her cousin Mika Lafond as a way to showcase Aboriginal-inspired visual art and writings. The magazine focused on decolonization, healing and family. Arcand took inspiration from her involvement in the R.A.I.N. (radical art in nature) collective in Vancouver in order to found Kimiwan.[8][9][10] She has also been published in BlackFlash Magazine.[11]

Arcand was the Nigig Visiting Artist in Residence in Indigenous Visual Culture with the Faculty of Design at OCAD University from October 15 – November 11, 2017.[12] Her work has been exhibited at Gallery 101 (Ottawa), York Quay Gallery (Toronto), Mendel Art Gallery and Paved Arts (Saskatoon), and Grunt Gallery (Vancouver).

Arcand's work explores personal and political experiences through the lens of her mixed-race identity.[13][14] Arcand explores the revitalization of the Cree language through her art and has studied the language her whole life.[15] She said that "Language is culture. There are far too many Indigenous languages that are either extinct or endangered. Cree has been named one of the three languages that remain ‘viable’ by Statistics Canada; the number of speakers varies from 12,000-75,000. However, I realized that my own inability to speak the language means that in my family, the language is extinct. This realization triggered urgency in me that the time is now to start revitalizing our indigenous languages."[2] Some of her past work depicts a world where English and French signage is replaced with the Cree language.[16][17][18]

Arcand appeared as an extra on the set of the Portlandia TV series in 2015.[19]

She designs jewelry featuring Indigenous languages in a recent project titled Mad Aunty.[20]

Arcand currently acts as the Director of the Nordic Lab - a new space dedicated to artists from the circumpolar region - at artist-run-centre SAW Gallery in Ottawa.[21]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • oskinikiskwéwak (Young Women), 2012[22]
  • Through That Which Is Scene, 2013[23]
  • Official Language - Joi Arcand, 2014[24]
  • Through That Which Is Scene, 2016[25]
  • ᓇᒨᔭ ᓂᑎᑌᐧᐃᐧᓇ ᓂᑕᔮᐣ (I don't have my words), 2017, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff Centre.[15]
  • Language of Puncture, 2017[26]

Group exhibitions

  • Insurgence/Resurgence, 2018, Winnipeg Art Gallery.[27]

Awards

  • 2018 Sobey Art Award Finalist[28]

References

  1. ^ "The risks of building forts and jumping ropes… by Angela Marie Schenstead". tea&bannock. 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Joi Arcand - Plains Cree". Contemporary North American Indigenous Artists. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Bite Sizes: Joi T. Arcand". pluginicasummerinstitute.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  4. ^ Budney, Vincent J. (2008). Flatlanders: Saskatchewan Artists on the Horizon. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Mendel Art Gallery. p. 9.
  5. ^ "Joi T. Arcand | www.g101.ca". www.gallery101.org. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Curator's Biography | Wally Dion: Mapping Me In …". kelownaartgallery.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  7. ^ http://contemporarynativeartists.tumblr.com/post/19129465319/joi-arcand-plains-cree
  8. ^ Morin, Chris (28 January 2013). "Kimiwan Zine Showcases Saskatoon's Indigenous Artists". Ominocity. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  9. ^ Crane, Meg (11 March 2014). "Expanding kimiwan - outwords". outwords. Retrieved 11 March 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  10. ^ "nipê wânîn - Saskatchewan Book Awards". www.bookawards.sk.ca. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Joi Arcand - Plains Cree". Contemporary North American Indigenous Artists. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  12. ^ University, OCAD. "Indigenous Visual Culture's Nigig Visiting Artist: Joi T. Arca..." www2.ocadu.ca. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  13. ^ Macaulay, Patrick. "Combine (main gallery)". harbourfrontcentre. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  14. ^ Gay, Felicia Deirdre. "The red shift : a contemporary Aboriginal curatorial praxis". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  15. ^ a b "ᓇᒨᔭ ᓂᑎᑌᐧᐃᐧᓇ ᓂᑕᔮᐣ". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  16. ^ "In huge neon, Joi Arcand is rewriting everyday signs — in Cree | CBC Arts". CBC. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  17. ^ Lizard, Visual. "Upcoming | Winnipeg Art Gallery". wag.ca. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  18. ^ "The Optics of the Language: How Joi T. Arcand Looks with Words". Canadian Art. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  19. ^ "Saskatchewan cousins have 'amazing' time on Portlandia set". CBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  20. ^ Nomadeandmode (28 October 2018). "Joi T Arcand | visual artist & Mad Aunty jewellery designer". Nomade & Mode. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  21. ^ Simpson, Peter. "They came, they SAW and they renovated: Gallery in Arts Court gets a facelift – ARTSFILE". Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  22. ^ Gushue, Brittany. "History, identity explored at Gallery 101 double exhibition – The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper". charlatan.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  23. ^ "Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Current Exhibitions". www.dunlopartgallery.org. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  24. ^ "Official Language - Joi Arcand". Wanuskewin Heritage Park. 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  25. ^ Longman, Mary (2016). "Joi T. Arcand: Through That Which Is Scene". Klondike Institute of Art and Culture Blog. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  26. ^ "Language of Puncture | www.g101.ca". www.gallery101.org. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  27. ^ Lizard, Visual. "Upcoming | Winnipeg Art Gallery". wag.ca. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  28. ^ Jan 29, CBC Radio · Posted:; January 29, 2019 11:33 AM ET | Last Updated:. "2018 Sobey Art Award: Prairies & North - Joi T. Arcand | CBC Radio". CBC. Retrieved 25 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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