Artist Talk & Community Bead Night
Join us for an evening of art, conversation and community at the BEAD Lodge!
We’re thrilled to welcome Carrie Allison (@carrieallisonart) and curator Fran Hebert-Spence (@franchesca_hebertspence) for an artist talk + community bead night in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition “we tend to care.”
Tuesday, July 29
7:00–9:00 PM
The BEAD Lodge
11044 100 St, Unit 102, Grande Prairie
Carrie Allison is a multidisciplinary artist, mother, and community organizer. Her practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw/cree and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Her work seeks to reclaim, remember, recreate and celebrate her ancestry through visual discussions often utilizing beading, embroidery, handmade paper, watercolour, websites, QR codes, audio, video and animation. Old and new technologies are combined to tell stories of the land, continuance, growth, and of healing.
Currently residing in Inuvik within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Franchesca Hebert-Spence is Anishinaabe from Winnipeg, Manitoba, her grandmother Marion Ida Spence was from Sagkeeng First Nation, on Lake Winnipeg. Hebert-Spence has worked as cultural producer with a background in making, curating, research and administration. She is an Independent curator and previously served as Adjunct Curator, Indigenous art at the Art Gallery of Alberta, as well as a Curatorial Assistant within the Indigenous Art Department at the National Gallery of Canada.
This exhibition is produced in partnership with IOTA Studios (@iotainstitute) and Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. This project gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, and the Province of Nova Scotia’s Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, M3M Marketing, Town & Country News, and the RBC Emerging Artists Project.
Special thanks to BEAD Lodge (@beadlodge) and Fran Rogers-Chowace for the amazing support in hosting this event.
Media sponsor: M3M Marketing (@m3mmarketing) and Town & Country News.
