Indigenous Speakers Series presents Logan MacDonald

The Indigenous Speakers Series second online event this term features Logan MacDonald, professor in the Department of Fine Arts and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Art.

About Logan MacDonald

Logan MacDonald is a visual artist of mixed European and Mi’kmaq ancestry, belonging to the Elmastukwek people of Ktaqmkuk territory (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland). His interdisciplinary practice explores notions of belonging in contexts of cultural erasure, queer and disability experiences. MacDonald has been featured as a solo artist exhibiting in competitive and critically engaged galleries throughout Canada, including The Lay of Land project at Eastern Edge (2017), Ace Art Inc. (2018), and Grenfell Art Gallery, and the exhibition Bæōdut / Hidden Histories at the Newfoundland provincial museum The Rooms (2019). He is the author of a forthcoming chapter Tall Timber: Reasoning Indigenous Art Histories of Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of the Future Possibles exhibition catalogue held at The Rooms. He was longlisted for the 2019 Sobey Art Award, from which he was awarded a six-month artist residency at the Künstlerhaus Benthanien in Berlin. MacDonald has taught at three post-secondary institutions and joined the Department of Fine Arts at Waterloo in 2019. In 2020, he was named a CRC in Indigenous Art.

About joining the event

• Please mark your calendar and join the event via the livestream link. No sign-in or registration required! But please note, if you join via the link on a mobile device or tablet, you’ll need the Teams app. Computer users can join with no Teams app.
• This event will offer American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. For those who would like to access ASL interpretation livestream, please open two browser windows on your computer to view both the event and the ASL interpretation. 

The Indigenous Speakers Series is co-presented by the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre and the Faculty of Arts with the support of donors to the Arts Indigenous Initiatives fund. The Series highlights the voices of Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and leaders from across Turtle Island, offering UWaterloo students, faculty and staff opportunities to learn from, understand, and engage with Indigenous issues.

Illustration by Luke Swinson and Alanah Astehtsi Otsistohkwa Jewell.