2017-2019 Juried Exhibition
Robin Faye Life Cycle directly links our consumption of oil with what we are leaving the next generation. A heart-shaped scene in ceramic sculpture shows a mother nursing an infant, in an urban setting, with a gas pump handle turned towards the viewer indicating the viewer's involvement. A close-up view from the side of the original ceramic piece reveals that the baby is not actually latched on to the mother's nipple, and the nipple is oozing oil. This work implies that our environmental choices have a detrimental effect on human health. The angle of view makes it obvious that the gas pump handle is turned towards the viewer, indicating the viewer's direct involvement in the decision about our use of oil. |
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Dr. Olga Shugurova Olga obtained her PhD in Educational Sustainability from the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University in 2017. In her research, she utilized arts-based methodologies, such as a/r/tography (Irwin, 2004; Irwin & Springgay, 2008; Leggo et al., 2011, and other colleagues). The dissertation is entitled Learning, local knowledge, and place: A historical perspective on educational sustainability before the advent of compulsory schooling in Tibet. As an artist, researcher, and teacher, she engaged oral histories as a dialogic way of learning from the Elders about their lived experience and the historical significance of these experiences. The research advanced knowledge about a place-based educational sustainability from within an arts-based methodological context. |
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Matthew O'Reilly Matthew O'Reilly is an artist and educator centred in Thunder Bay. His work typically immerses the viewer in a tactile clay or acrylic experience that begs for further inquiry. Matthew deals with content that challenges the viewer's baggage that they bring to the artwork.
The works' intention is to have the viewer consider their relationship, or lack there of, with nature. The work is intended to be a catalyst for conversations and research concerning ecological literacy. |
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Lisa MeschinoSeries Title: Impermanent Structures
The idea that “we are the product of this universe” (Janna Levin) is the starting point for this 2015-2016 series entitled, “Impermanent Structures”. This body of work examines the basic patterns and elements that connect us to our world, e.g., the shared make-up and cycles of tree and animal life, stars and planets. Physical cosmology, mathematics, and narrative link us to our environment. Through its foraged materials and construction processes, this work explores questions of where and how we fit in and how we develop a sense of place. |
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Kathryn Ricketts Kathryn Ricketts, dance professor at the University of Regina, creates interdisciplinary performances combining visual art exhibitions and dance/theatre. For the past 25 years her work has toured North America, Africa, and Europe. Vacillating between banality and poignancy, she exhibits and performs narratives triggered by everyday collections and discards of objects.
Anthropology of the Discard Fascinated by the wall of Value Village where conglomerates of objects hang in plastic bags for the standard price of $2.99, I have collected those that are ‘bulging’ with compelling possible new narratives. This exhibition illuminates the saliency of objects as triggers for performative storytelling. It is also a display of artifacts as emblems of lives lived, and lives that refuse to be seen in isolation of each other. The membrane that holds the objects and that which holds the improvisations throughout the exhibition emphasizes and reaffirms the interconnected nature of our lives and the importance of relational existence. |
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Holly Tsun HaggartySeries Title: Earth Angel
Holly Tsun Haggarty is a poet who seeks meaning in the lyric of earth-walking, soup-making, picture-taking, book-reading, mindful-moving, baby-making, god/grand/great-parenting and upper-schooling. A PhD student, she is studying the meaning of life – through philosophies of art education. She likes to contemplate the meaning of being versus becoming. Solange the Younger This photo-illustrated poem is one of a pair. Both are exemplars of poetic inquiry, a research methodology that asserts poetry as meaning-making endeavor (Prendergast, Leggo & Sameshima, 2009). In these poems, part of a longer series, I reflect on the significance of my mother and of her relationship with me. Solange the Elder Note that meaning of these poems draws from their context, not just cultural, but also the context of my mother living with, and recently dying from, dementia. Hermeneutically, the poems look from wide to particular in search of meaning and, conversely, moving from the particular, the poems may reach widely. |
Poetry Performance by Hollly Tsun Haggarty
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Elaine WiersmaSeries title: (re)Creating the Self: An Art Program for People with Dementia
This art is created by a group of people living with dementia in an art program facilitated by Eleanor Albanese. The photographs were taken by Elaine Wiersma. The paper quilt is a collection of pieces created by people with dementia, including collage, watercolour, and weaving. These pieces of the quilt tell participants life stories. The banner is a collection of pieces created by people with dementia about themselves, again illustrating pieces of their story. The photographs and quotes illustrate the experiences of participants during the art program. The photographs capture the experiences of relationships, creativity, and being. |
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Christina van Barneveld Dr. Christina van Barneveld is an Associate Professor in Education, specializing in Educational Measurement and Evaluation. Her research addresses key measurement concepts - like validity of measurements as the basis of interpretations about student learning, measurement error, and fairness of educational assessments - applied to various educational contexts, especially large scale assessments of students in Ontario. She is founding Director of Humanities 101 at Lakehead University, a program aimed at removing barriers to community members who wish to gain experience in higher education.
With interests in watercolour, acrylics, pottery, and quilting, her artistic endeavours were personal until 2017. Then, while on sabbatical, she learned more about arts-integrated research and explored the boundaries between her personal interests in art and her professional experiences. The research resulted in an in-depth reflection on Humanities 101 using journaling, photography, and quilt-making as research processes that resulted in a quilt and an article (in progress) as research outcomes. Eight themes emerged from the research that related to the process and outcomes of Humanities 101. These themes were also reflected in the process and outcome of the quilt, entitled "Being human". |
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Jeff Adams
Jeff Adams is a visual artist/poet. He is a contract lecturer at Lakehead University teaching in the Visual Arts/Media Studies programs. He is currently completing a Ph.D. using an art-based narrative inquiry approach titled AN ACCIDENT, TIME OUT, AND A CURRICULUM REVIVAL: NEW VISIONS OF LIVING AND LEARNING USING ART-BASED NARRATIVE INQUIRY.
Although a concussion put his life on hold for almost two years, he believes that it is the reason for his newfound desire to delve into his experience to discover who he is now and how he will evolve into the person he is becoming.
Although a concussion put his life on hold for almost two years, he believes that it is the reason for his newfound desire to delve into his experience to discover who he is now and how he will evolve into the person he is becoming.
