Jason Baerg is a registered member of the Métis Nations of Ontario and serves their community as an Indigenous activist, curator, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. Baerg graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University and is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Monash University. Baerg teaches as the Assistant Professor in Indigenous Practices in Contemporary Painting and Media Art at OCAD University. Exemplifying their commitment to community, they co-founded The Shushkitew Collective and The Métis Artist Collective. Baerg has served as volunteer Chair for such organizations as the Indigenous Curatorial Collective and the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition. As a visual artist, they push digital interventions in drawing, painting, and new media installation. Select international solo exhibitions include Canada House in London, UK, 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, USA. They sat on 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.
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I’ll share my medicines if you don’t have enough room for yours
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by Jennifer Smith Over the period of a couple of months in 2019 I kept hearing about Chanelle Lajoie...
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Taylor McArthur
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Taylor McArthur (Pogé hąská wašté wiyá/Hummingbird Woman) Nakoda of Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation, Saskatchewan currently residing in Winnipeg,...
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Azka Ahmed
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Azka Ahmed is a South Asian multidisciplinary artist and first-generation immigrant on Treaty 1 territory. Their practice explores concepts...
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Craig Commanda
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Craig Commanda is an Anishinaabe multi-disciplinary artist from Kitigan Zibi First Nation, working in film, music, beadwork, poetry, photography,...
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Esperanza Sanchez Espitia
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Esperanza Sanchez Espitia is a Colombo Canadian photojournalist, a base lenses artist, and a women storyteller filmmaker. Esperanza has...
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Marjorie Beaucage, Rainbow Warrior, and Art-ivist
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by Dr. Michelle McGeough “Sometimes my camera is a witness; sometimes my camera is a mirror.”i ...
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Harbour Collective features COASTLINE Lab 2022 Artist, Quinn Hopkins
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Quinn Hopkins is one of six Indigenous artists selected from across Canada to participate in an intensive four-month residency...