Artist Talk with Susan Blight

 

SoCA Armouries, B31

37 University Ave., East
Free event. Public welcome

 

Susan Blight will discuss her ongoing work with Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective founded by Blight and Hayden King in January 2013 during the height of the Idle No More movement. Through public art, site-specific intervention, and social practice, Ogimaa Mikana asserts Anishinaabe self-determination on the land and in the public sphere. 

 

Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, photography, film, and social practice.  Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space.  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba, a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media, and is currently a PhD student in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT).