Join curator and academic Erin Sutherland and artist/architect Tiffany Shaw as they discuss decolonial strategies in art, architecture, and curation.

This program is free to attend and will take place online via Zoom. Registration is required. To register for this event, please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Event Coordinator hkehoe@saag.ca.

Erin Sutherland is an independent curator and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Calgary. Originally from northern Alberta, Treaty 8 territory, Erin received a PhD Cultural Studies and MA Cultural Studies from Queen's University. She is also a founding member of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective in Edmonton. She has curated a number of performance series and gallery shows including Talkin’ Back to Johnny Mac (2015), which engaged with the 200th birthday celebrations of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald. Other curatorial projects include Let’s Talk about Sex, bb (2018) co-curated with Carina Magazenni and Buffalo Boy: Hubris (2020).

Tiffany Shaw is a Métis architect, artist and curator based in Alberta. She holds a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University, a Masters in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and is currently working at Reimagine Architects and recently started an Indigenous owned consulting company, named Reimagine Gathering. Shaw has exhibited widely including the Architecture Venice Biennale, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Pier 21, Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She has been the recipient of multiple public art commissions such as Edmonton's Indigenous Art Park and Winnipeg’s Markham Bus Station. Among her public art projects Tiffany has produced several notable transitory art works and is a core member of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective.

Oscillating between digital and analogue methodologies Shaw’s work gathers notions of craft, memory and atmosphere. Her practice is often guided by communal interventions as a way to engage a lifted understanding of place. While born in Calgary and raised in Edmonton, Shaw’s Métis lineage derives from Fort McMurray via Fort McKay and the Red River.