The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) is pleased to present an online event (register via Eventbrite) featuring artist Raven Davis in conversation with writer Glodeane Brown. on Thursday March 17 at 7 PM. They will be discussing Raven's work currently on view in the exhibition Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later, on display at UWAG until March 25. ASL interpretation and automated transcripts to be provided.
This project is extension of the CAFKA.21 biennial, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost. CAFKA would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Raven Davis is an Anishinaabe, 2-Spirit, transgender, disabled multidisciplinary artist, activist, and educator, whose mother is from Treaty Four in Manitoba. Davis was born and raised in Michi Saagig Territory/Toronto, Ontario, and resides and works fluidly between Toronto and Kjipuktuk/Halifax. A parent of three sons, Davis works within the mediums of painting, performance, and media. Challenging systemic oppression, Davis fuses narratives of colonization, race, gender, disability, transformative justice, and 2-Spirit/Indigiqueer identity in their work. Davis’ performance and art practice bravely embodies their lived experience, reclaiming histories of Indigenous peoples’ restoring cultural knowledge, and honouring land, water and collective kinship futures.
Glodeane Brown (she/her) is an arts management professional, an arts and culture blogger, and a public art coordinator. She was previously the General Manager at CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area. In 2021 she started working at The Town of Halton Hills as the Town’s first Public Art Coordinator. She has worked with several arts organizations to provide services ranging from jurying to facilitating panels. She is a Director at Arts Awards Waterloo Region, and a Guest Curator at Mind’s Eye Studio Art Gallery where she has curated solo and group shows featuring local artists. In 2020 she received an arts award from Arts Awards Waterloo Region for her contribution to the local arts community.