Curator's Tour with Lisa Deanne Smith & Ryan Rice

Onsite Gallery, OCAD UniversityOnsite Gallery offers powerful, thought-provoking exhibitions of art, design and digital media to stimulate conversations on critical issues facing Toronto and the world.

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Join Ryan Rice & Lisa Deanne Smith for an in-depth tour of Jordan Bennett x2: Souvenir and pi'tawita'iek: we go up river.

Join Ryan Rice &amp; Lisa Deanne Smith for an in-depth tour of Jordan Bennett x2: Souvenir and pi&#x27;tawita&#x27;iek: we go up river. Please meet us at Butterfield Park, 100 McCaul Street. The tour begins at Butterfield Park and continues to Onsite Gallery. Jordan Bennett x2: SouvenirCurated by Ryan Rice. Ryan Rice, Kanien’kehá:ka, is an independent curator and an Associate Dean at OCAD University.Jordan Bennett’s solo exhibition Souvenir draws upon his inspired intentions to visit, activate and respond to the innovative heritage embedded, woven and veiled in the richness of Mi’kmaq material culture and design. His interdisciplinary and intuitive approach grants new vitality to overlooked cultural expressions that carry elaborate Mi’kmaq cosmologies interpreted through customary geometric motifs embellished in a highly valued era of porcupine quillwork and basketry souvenir trade commodities that was thriving in the 19th century. The exhibition brings together Bennett’s newly designed site-specific work, museum collection loans, and installation to celebrate the vitality and influence of Indigenous aesthetic as contemporary practice. Jordan Bennett x2: pi&#x27;tawita&#x27;iek: we go up riverCurated by Lisa Deanne Smith, Curator, Onsite GalleryA large-scale outdoor mural by Jordan BennettAs part of ArtworxTOpi&#x27;tawita&#x27;iek: we go up river on the south wall of OCAD University’s main campus, adjacent to Butterfield Park, will ground the space in Indigenous material culture. This public artwork is rooted in Bennett’s relationships with Mi’kmaq porcupine quillwork. He brings forward and reimagines their graphic patterns, bright colours and inspiring stories. In visiting with these cultural objects Bennett connects with their visual language and furthers this visual conversation through his contemporary influences and experience.

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