Shushkitew Collective

Jason Baerg is a registered member of the Métis Nations of Ontario and serves his community as an Indigenous curator, educator, and visual artist. Recent curatorial projects include exhibitions with Toronto’s Nuit Blanche and The University of Toronto. Baerg graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University. He currently is teaching as the Assistant Professor in Indigenous Practices in Contemporary Painting and Media Art at OCAD University. Dedicated to community development, he founded and incorporated the Metis Artist Collective and has served as volunteer Chair for such organizations as the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition. Creatively, as a visual artist, he pushes new boundaries in digital interventions in drawing, painting and new media installation. Recent international solo exhibitions include the Luminato Festival in Toronto, Canada, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and the Digital Dome at the Institute of the American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jason Baerg has adjudicated numerous art juries and won awards through such facilitators as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council. For more information about his practice, please visit jasonbaerg.info.

Rhéanne Chartrand is the Curator of Indigenous Art at McMaster Museum of Art. She holds a master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. A Métis curator and creative producer based in Hamilton and Toronto, Chartrand has curated interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exhibitions, showcases, and festivals for venues and organizations such as the City of Toronto, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Harbourfront Centre, OCAD University, the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, the Aboriginal Pavilion at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Her curatorial work focuses on the praxis of survivance, Indigenous epistemes, relational aesthetics, representational politics, and gratitude.

Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer. A citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta with French and Dutch ancestries, Hogue was raised in Red Deer, AB on the border between Treaty 6 and 7 territories. She holds a master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia. Hogue is the inaugural Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2017–20) where she curated the exhibitions lineages and land bases (2020) and Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? (2018). She also co-curated an international series of exhibitions with Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Freja Carmichael, Léuli Lunaʻi Eshraghi, and Lana Lopesi: The Commute , Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018); Layover , Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland (2019); and Transits and Returns , Vancouver Art Gallery (2019–20). She has previously held positions at grunt gallery (2014–17) and was the 2016 Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellow at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In 2019, Hogue received the Hnatyshyn Foundation – TD Bank Group Awards for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and exhibition catalogues, including Maureen Gruben: QULLIQ: In Darkness, Light (Libby Leshgold Gallery, 2020) and Tania Willard and the New BC Indian Art and Welfare Society Collective: dissimulation (Burnaby Art Gallery, 2017), and she is co-editing a forthcoming volume called Creative Conciliations: Reflections, Responses, Refusals with Jonathan Dewar and Jennifer Robinson. She has served as the board co-chair of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective/Collectif des Commissaires Autochtones since 2018. In October 2020, Hogue will step into a new role as Curator (Indigenous) at Remai Modern, Saskatoon.

Jaime Morse (formerly Koebel) is Nehiyaw/Michif (Cree/Métis) from Lac La Biche, AB and has lived in Ottawa since 2000. She is an Indigenous arts activator, activating stories and teachings of social, political and cultural matters through Indigenous arts and culture at the National Gallery of Canada. As an artist her practice includes carrying on traditions of fish scale art, using porcupine quills/hair and caribou/moose hair. Jaime also practices Métis beadwork which includes land mapping and storytelling and her drawings reflect floral imagery based on traditional Indigenous knowledge.

Michelle McGeough (Métis) is an Indigenous art historian, artist, and curator. She received her MA from Carleton University and her PhD from the University of New Mexico. McGeough’s research interests have focused on contemporary and historical Indigenous cultural production and Indigenous non-binary identities. This has included an examination of an Indigenous understanding of the erotic through the paintings of Norval Morrisseau. Her essay “Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic” was published in Drew Hayden Taylor’s anthology Me Sexy. McGeough is also interested in the application of Indigenous research methodologies and the incorporation of these ways of knowing into the curation of Indigenous material culture and art. McGeough curated the exhibition and wrote the catalogue for Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe, 1918–1945 . Prior to her appointment to UBC, she taught museum studies at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.