Members of the Morrisseau Project research team at Carleton (November 2018).
Project Partners
Our project involves key stakeholders, including the members of the Norval Morrisseau Heritage Society (formed by Morrisseau in 2005 to ensure his artistic legacy), curators of major museum collections, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, private collectors and others who knew the artist. Because of the relationship of this investigation to Anishinaabe knowledge, we seek guidance from Anishinaabeg knowledge keepers and community partners regarding matters of cultural protocol, research design, and dissemination. We view the training of a new generation of researchers as a key aspect of the project and student research assistants undertake much of the primary research.
The project’s director is Dr Carmen Robertson, Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture at Carleton University. Our team includes a project manager and team of research assistants based at Carleton, and a dozen key curators and researchers from across Turtle Island. Our major institutional partners are:
- Westerkirk Works of Art
- National Gallery of Canada
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Canadian Museum of History
- Indigenous Art Centre—CIRNAC
Morrisseau Carleton team members at the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (September 2023)
The Morrisseau Project lab and offices are located at Carleton on the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin nation and we welcome the responsibility to respect Algonquin protocols.
The Morrisseau Project would not have been possible without generous support from Carleton University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
