Coffee Chats is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted virtually in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating an online community.
Kaia’tanó:ron Dumoulin Bush is an Onkwehonwe/French-Canadian illustrator and visual artist from Oshahrhé:'on (Chateauguay), Quebec. She completed her BFA in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University in December 2018 and has previously obtained DECs in Fine Arts and Illustration & Design from Montreal's Dawson College. As a freelancer, she loves collaborating with clients who seek to enrich Indigenous communities and empower Indigenous youth. From 2012 to 2020, Kaia’tanó:ron worked with the Encore! Sistema after school and summer camp programs based out of Karonhianonhnha School in Kahnawake, Qc. as a music and visual arts educator. Currently, she is the social media and daphne beads: perler/parler coordinator at Centre d’art daphne in Montreal and is preparing for her second solo exhibition opening at Centre d’art daphne in October 2021.
Site: www.kaiatanoron.com
Instagram: @celestiyuuul
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Our Coffee Chat with Kaia’tanoron will be joined by Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation), Delaney Chair, Indigenous Visual Culture, who will be available to chat with us and share information about the INVC program.
The Indigenous Visual Culture program at OCAD University combines practice-specific and interdisciplinary studio-based learning, and courses in the visual, cultural, social and political history of Indigenous peoples. The program prepares students to engage in complex and evolving global discourses in Indigenous history, art history and contemporary art practice across a range of expressions, material and media. It can lead to a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree or an interdisciplinary minor.
Instagram: @IndigenousVisualCulture
This event is presented by the RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers, the Indigenous Student Centre, and the Indigenous Visual Culture program at OCAD University.
This event will not be recorded. Live auto-captioning will be available.