ANONG MIGWANS BEAM

SUSTAINABLE ART SPEAKERS SERIES

GATHERING COLOR:

STORIES FROM A PAINTMAKER

Monday, October 28, 2019, 6:30 PM

OCAD University

205 Richmond St. West, Room 420

Supported in part by the Ada Slaight Foundation

Anong Migwans Beam is a painter, mother, paintmaker, curator living and working in her home community of Mchigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. After studying art at the School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston, OCAD, and Institute of American Indian Arts, she returned home to be a studio assistant for her father Carl Beam. Her painting practice is in large format oil on canvas. She is the founder of Gimaa Radio, Ojibwe Language radio CHYF 88.9fm. She maintains an independent curating practice, and served as director of the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, before leaving to focus on her own practice and the art of paintmaking. She has always loved the colors pink and green more than anyone should, she collects art, makes art, and is generally obsessed with all aspects therein. Currently preparing for an exhibition of her oil on canvas work “history of painting “at the John B. Aird Gallery Toronto.