{"id":7392,"date":"2026-07-02T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?page_id=7392"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:13:34","slug":"focus-on-our-graduate-curators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/focus-on-our-graduate-curators\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Our Graduate Curators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Check out some of the past exhibitions curated by students of our CURA 5001 studio course.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904-1949), “School Garden” (c.1934), watercolour on paper, detail. Gift of Jack and Frances Barwick, 1985.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An exhibition curated by students of our\u00a0CURA 5001 studio course<\/strong>\u00a0(visual arts stream) at the Carleton University Art Gallery. Developed under the supervision of Dr. Rachelle Dickenson,\u00a0Where We Stand \u00a0“<\/em>brings together artworks selected from CUAG\u2019s collection, made by artists from the eighteenth century to the present, to explore various facets of place-making.”\u00a0Student curators Regatu Asefa, Amanda Boyd, Jasmin Anisa Cardillo, Ashley Carmichael, Sam Nicholls, Leah Ross, Emma Sabry, Gureena Saran are warmly congratulated. The exhibition runs until December 18, 2022. For ore information, consult the Carleton University Art Gallery\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>. CUAG is warmly thanked for its generous collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to all graduate student curators in\u00a0Dr. Trina Cooper-Bolam’s Studio Course (CURRA 5002, Winter 21) on the launch of the exhibition,\u00a0Haunted by Sir John A. MacDonald in Sandy Hill: A Virtual Exhibition on A Controversial Figure.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Mounted in partnership with\u00a0Prime Ministers\u2019 Row<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Ottawa Museum Network<\/a>, this ongoing virtual exhibition aims\u00a0to critically present Sir John A. Macdonald\u2019s history and legacy through an artifact-based exhibition, rooted in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood in Ottawa.\u00a0Read more\u2026<\/a>\u00a0 Graduate student curators are\u00a0Madeleine McDougall<\/strong>,\u00a0Haley Menard<\/strong>,\u00a0Sophie Nakashima<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Haruka Toyoda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Patricia B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to\u00a0Patricia B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0(Curatorial Studies Diploma student and Cultural Mediations PhD candidate), who was announced as one of the two inaugural Student Accessibility Champions, helping to shape and inform accessibility across campus. For more information of this announcement and Patricia\u2019s\u00a0involvement<\/a> in the\u00a0READi<\/a>\u00a0(Research, education, Accessibility and Innovation) program. Patricia\u2019s full profile can be found on the Cultural Mediations\u00a0students profile page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Eryn O’Neill<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eryn O’Neill,<\/strong> a current graduate student in ICSLAC\u2019s Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies, recently presented a conference on “Outings, Research, and Execution”. Her talk was part of Arteast Ottawa<\/a>‘s Speakers Series<\/a>. For more information on Eryn’s work: eofineart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Rebecca Friend<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Friend<\/strong> is a recent graduate of both ICSLAC\u2019s Curatorial Studies Graduate Diploma and the MA program in Public History. She credits her work in co-curating Morsels of Memory: A Taste of Ottawa\u2019s Food History<\/a>, an exhibition with fellow Curatorial Studies students,  as inspiration for her MA research.  Friend studied how children and childhood have been represented in Canadian commemorations like monuments and memorials. Along with this research, she also designed a participatory project with a group of children at an elementary school in Montreal where they were asked to design their own monuments to Canadian childhood. For a fuller description of her curatorial research: Incorporating Youth Perspectives in Monuments<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Gracia Tenorio-Pearl<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gracia Tenorio-Pearl,<\/strong> Curatorial Studies Diploma, (2020). MA. Art History (Carleton University), MA. International Affairs (Carleton University), B.A. Science of Communications (UPAEP). Gracia is an adjunct professor of Curatorial Studies at Gratz College. She also worked under a Carleton fellowship on a children’s museology research project. Her primary area of research is contemporary Indigenous art. With her dissertation, “Should Mexico be included in the Native North American art conversation?, The Case of Mexican indigenous contemporary artist Fernando Palma’s solo exhibition at MoMA, 2018.” (Supervisor: Professor Carmen Robertson<\/a>), she has participated in academic conferences in the United States and Canada. She is working on a project that involves research and illustration on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An exhibition curated by students of our\u00a0CURA 5001 studio course\u00a0(visual arts stream) at the Carleton University Art Gallery. Developed under the supervision of Dr. Rachelle Dickenson,\u00a0Where We Stand \u00a0“brings together artworks selected from CUAG\u2019s collection, made by artists from the eighteenth century to the present, to explore various facets of place-making.”\u00a0Student curators Regatu Asefa, Amanda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-7392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7392\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}