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Métis Kitchen Table Talk Gathering with Cathy Mattes

Friday, Mar 24 20234 - 6pm

CiMADE Lab: Room 007 NSCAD Academy Campus, 1649 Brunswick St

Join Michif curator, writer, and art history professor Cathy Mattes for the Métis Kitchen Table Talk Gathering! This is an opportunity for lively conversations, food, and beading actions. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Cathy offers:  

“Historically, in Métis households the kitchen table was the centre of the home—it is where loved ones were fed, clothing mended, beadwork and embroidery completed, and where political and cultural scheming occurred.  

[During MKTT gatherings], artists or curators are invited to help ignite conversation, by sharing stories about their practices and the impact of their kinship ties, critical thoughts about art and theory, and whatever else they wish to share...There is much laughter, debate, and the occasional discomfort that occurs during MKTT. But there are also quiet, potent moments that contain encouragement, personal reflection, remembering, and activated listening. Sometimes a collective exhale can be felt, and the pulsations of Indigenous knowledge systems are ignited.” 

By co-organizing and hosting Métis Kitchen Table Talks with collective and collaborative bead actions, I attempt to curate care. By looking to those who beaded and strategized around the kitchen table to ensure that we can now live as Indigenous people, I hope to return the generosity I have received from other curators, artists, colleagues, community, and kin.” 

 

Source:

Mattes, C. “Wahkootowin, Beading and Métis Kitchen Table Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Strategies for Curating Care” in Radicalizing Care, Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating, edited by Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, et al. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2021. 

Closeup photograph of two hands holding a small needle over a dish of tiny glass seed beads. The hands are tattooed above the first knuckle on all fingers with a thin black line.
2019 Graduation exhibition installation. Small drawings and found objects are on the wall next to a textile hanging.

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems is a public exhibition space within NSCAD University, presenting professional exhibitions by established artists alongside graduating student exhibitions.

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Anna Leonowens Gallery

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Main navigation

  • Home
  • About
  • Programming
    calendar
  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • News
  • Submissions
  • The Permanent
    Collection
  • Contact

Featured Projects

Projects and happenings initiated by the Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems

Treaty Space Gallery

The merging of current Indigenous community-based knowledge with productive academic and artistic research.

NSCAD Lithography Workshop

Canadian artists collaborate in the production of a portfolio of limited-edition, hand-printed lithographs.

Anna Leonowens Gallery Certificate in Gallery & Studio Management

A series of 5 online professional development courses for emerging artists and gallery workers. Through over 100 instructional videos, guest interviews and behind the scene tours this series is designed to provide practical skills essential to succeeding in navigating a career as a professional artist or arts worker.