LONGHOUSE LOG
LONGHOUSE LOG
co-presented by University of Waterloo’s
Office of Indigenous Relations & Longhouse Labs
Indigenous Lecture Series: Greg Staats
The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Greg Staats, winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts (GGArts) and a 2024-25 Longhouse Labs Fellow here at the University of Waterloo.
A restorative aesthetic
Greg Staats is Skarù:reˀ [Tuscarora], Hodinöhsö:ni whose lens-based work combines language, mnemonics, and the natural world as an ongoing process of visualizing a Hodinohso:ni restorative aesthetic that defines relational multiplicities with condolence and renewal.
At this event, Greg will discuss his evolving methodology based on phenomena, lens-based issues and a lifelong practice focused on Hodinosho:ni imagery and the responsibilities to land body and memory. He will show selected images that identify key moments of movement over a 40-year career of exhibitions and sharing.
Thursday, November 28, 2024 from 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
We gratefully acknowledge the 2024-25 Longhouse Labs Fellows supporters: K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, Partners in Art, Rex Lingwood, TD Employees Endowment Fund held at the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.
More about Greg Staats
Greg is a founding member of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (NIIPA). He was awarded the 1999 Duke & Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the Canada Council for the Arts and, recently, the 2021 Toronto Arts Foundation’s Inaugural Indigenous Artist Award. Greg has had 17 solo national, regional and artist-run exhibitions, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Gallery 44 and the McMaster Museum of Art, as well as 16 group exhibitions, including at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, in Sante Fe, USA, Mercer Union and the International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. He has lectured extensively nationally, and his works are held within public, private and corporate collections. Greg has served as faculty for two Aboriginal Visual Arts Residencies at the Banff Centre. Greg Staats grew up on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ohsweken, and has resided in Toronto, Ontario, since 1986.
Treaty Girl
artwork by
Courtney Skye
curated by
Alex Jacobs-Blum
September 17 to November 6, 2024
Open: tues/thurs 9:30am - 4:30pm
or by appointment, email:
longhouselabs@uwaterloo.ca
Closing reception:
Wednesday Oct 30 from 4 - 7pm, 2024
WE REMAIN
CERTAIN
A PROTECT THE TRACT EXHIBITION
April 1 - May 30 2024
Opening reception: Thursday, April 11, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
remarks starting at 3:30 pm
This exhibition is generously supported by The Musagetes Fund.
FILED UNDER: LONGHOUSE LABS PRESENTATIONS
FILED UNDER: LONGHOUSE LABS PRESENTATIONS
FILED UNDER: LONGHOUSE LABS ACTIVITIES
FILED UNDER: LONGHOUSE LABS ACTIVITIES
FILED UNDER: LONGHOUSE LABS ACTIVITIES
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Hoop Dance Performance and Workshop with Feryn King
Mohawk Hoop dancer Feryn King performed at UW. Followed by a hoop-making workshop for students co-presented with UW History Department.
Oct 2021
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CLAY HARVESTING & PIT FIRING
Nizhoo (Shawna) Morningstar Redskye (Anishinaabe ceramicist) facilitated a month-long land-based clay harvesting and firing workshop co-hosted by O:se Kenhionhata:tie Collective (also known as Land Back Camp) at Laurel Creek in Waterloo
Aug 2021
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Carving Workshop Session with Students
Billy Gauthier offered a hands-on stone carving workshop to students, allowing for experimentation with materials and tools.
Nov 2022
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Big Ideas in Art and Culture Lecture Series: Billy Gauthier
Co-presented with CAKFA and KWAG. Billy presented an amazing artist talk about urgent themes, circumstances, and traditions that inform his practice.
Nov 15 2022
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Big Ideas in Art and Culture Lecture Series: Susan M. Hill and Rick Monture
Organized by Protect the Tract and Co-presented by CAFKA and UWAG. Guest speakers Dr. Susan Hill (Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan) and Dr. Rick Monture (Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan) lecture on Haudenosaunee history and land - specifically looking at the Halidmand Tract.
Nov 27 2022
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BEAD THE TRACT WORKSHOP
As part of our Fine Arts Open House, we invite everyone to join us for the special presentation by Longhouse Labs Fellow's Protect the Tract Artists Collective. The artists will be facilitating a show and tell workshop about Haudenosaunee beadwork hosted by Tuscarora artist Gadaihongwas and Mohawk artist Kahionwinehshon. There will be demonstrations, learning, and refreshments.
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BEAD THE TRACT
Bead the Tractwas an artistic group of beaders working within Protect the Tract Collective. Beadwork artists included:
Talena Atfield, Jija Jacobs, Tesha Emarthle, Kahionwinehshon Phillips
2023-2024
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Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award
Congratulations to Billy Gauthier on being shortlisted for the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award.
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Sila
Congratulations to former LLabs Fellow Billy Gauthier on his solo exhibition Sila at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG). Curated by Darryn Doull
22 June - 20 October, 2024
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Akni:ho'gwa:s Artist Collective awarded residency at U of T
Congratulations to Akni:ho'gwa:s Artist Collective (former LLabs Fellow Courtney Skye and Jeff Doctor) on being awarded a 2025 artist residency at Hart House, University of Toronto!
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Fellow Greg Staats Shortlisted for the 2025 Scotiabank Photography Prize
Big congratulations to current LLab Fellow Greg Staats on being shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Prize.
Nominated by Melissa Bennett
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