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Welcome CIMADE Artist in Residence: Cathy Mattes

Pjila'si to Kjipuktuk, Cathy! Join us in welcoming CIMADE Artist in Residence Cathy Mattes (Michif) to Kjipuktuk. Stay tuned for upcoming events: Curator Talk, BIPOC-Focused Studio Visits, and Métis Kitchen Table Talk Gathering. 

Did you know? Pjila’si (êp·chi·laa·si ) is a Mi’kmaw word, meaning “welcome” or “come in and sit down”. 

Cathy Mattes (Michif) is a curator ,writer, and art history professor based out of Sprucewoods, Manitoba, Canada. Her curation, research and writing centers on dialogic and Indigenous knowledge-centered curatorial practice as strategies for care. Curatorial projects include Kwaata-nihtaawakihk  (Co-curator Sherry Farrell Racette, Winnipeg Art Gallery, March 2022), Radical Stitch (Co-curators Sherry Farrell Racette and Michelle Lavallee, Mackenzie Art Gallery, April 2022), and Inheritance: Amy Malbeuf (March 2017, Kelowna Art Gallery). She has a PhD in Indigenous Studies from the University of Manitoba, and currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg in the History of Art and Curatorial Studies programs. Mattes has been beading since she was 20 years old, when she was first taught by her auntie Jean Baron Ward.  Since then she has taught beading and moccasin-making in workshops, university courses, and around her kitchen table with family and friends. 

 

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Posted Mar 14, 2023

Photograph of Cathy Mattes smiling at the camera. She is wearing a light pink turtleneck, silver beaded earrings, red lipstick, and black glasses. Her light brown and gray hair is down and falls past her shoulders.
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

1891 Granville Street, Halifax, NS

Tuesday – Friday

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Saturday

12 – 4pm

All openings are on Mondays 
at 5:30 – 7pm, unless stated otherwise.

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1107 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS

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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.