Teaching Intensive Stream - Public Talk

Talk Faculty Public Staff Undergraduate Student

A Hybrid Event: Teaching Intensive Stream by Two Faculty Members
Amish Morrell | Criticism & Curatorial Practice
Tannis Nielsen | Drawing & Painting

230 Richmond St. W RHB 322
1:30 - 3 p.m.
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
Free
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230 Richmond St. W RHB 322
1:30 - 3 p.m.
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
Free
Add to Calendar
group of people blowing horns in the lake
Faculty of Art

 

Teaching Intensive Stream -  Public Talk

 

  • Wednesday, February 26, 1:30 to 3 pm
  • 230 Richmond St., Room 322
  • Hybrid Presentation Join Teams
     
TIS poster with 2 artwork
group of people blowing horns in the lake

Futurefarmers, Then/Now/Hear/Here. August 2023, a performance event with artists, farmers and musicians, MacKinnon's Brook, Cape Breton. Commissioned and produced by Outdoor School.

Amish Morrell: 

Outdoor School: Learning Together Outside the Classroom

Amish Morrell will talk about his work facilitating experiential and community-based environmental art projects, and its relation to his teaching practice. Over the past decade, this work has included public art events, artist residencies, seminars in the forest, mushroom forays and publications, as well as exhibition projects that centre our relation to land and the outdoors. While helping others to access nature and the outdoors, his projects propose alternatives to commercial and colonial conceptions of land and nature, and ways of attending to our relations with the other-than-human. Through writing, curating and teaching he facilitates the development of creative, counter-cultural works that are focused on education, community and place, and which blur the boundaries between art and life, nature and culture.

 

A Canoe Public Art Installation in Toronto Nathan Philpps Square

Manitous Canoe, 36ft long, mirrored stainless steel and polycarbonate panels, installed 2024, Tkaronto, Nathan Philips Square

2 channel installation

mazinibii'igan/a creation, 2-channel video installation created 2020, Aga Khan Museum

Tannis Nielsen: 

Place/Pedagogy-Sovereignty

Tannis Nielsen will discuss her recent public artworks that acknowledge the land and its natural laws, shaping her pedagogy and lead to a place of visual sovereignty. She will explore works such as the Simcoe Street Underpass mural, her Rita Letendre reproduction and response at Evergreen Brick Works, and Manitous Canoe—a 36-foot mirrored stainless steel canoe created for the Spirit Garden at Nathan Phillips Square as part of the Indian Residential School Survivor (IRSS) Legacy Project. Commissioned by the City of Toronto in partnership with Gow Hastings Architects and Council Fire Native Cultural Center, this project responds to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. The talk will conclude with mazinibiigan / a design (a creation), her current installation at the Aga Khan Museum, on view until April 2025.


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