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Friday, February 7, 2025

On Morrisseau & Letendre at the AGO

  Talks: ON MORRISSEAU AND LETENDRE   Wednesday, March 19, 7 pm, 2025 Baillie Court, Art Gallery of Ontario Join art historians Carmen Robertson and Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, AGO, for a conversation about the lives and work of two of the 20th century’s greatest painters: Rita Letendre (1928–2021)... More

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Visiting with Morrisseau Wins GOG Award

Visiting with Morrisseau Gathering at Carleton University Art Gallery Winner of the 2024 Galleries Ontario Education Award Educators: Danielle Printup, Carmen Robertson Participants & Artists: Claudette Commanda, Albert Dumont, Kitigan Zibi Elders Circle (Jennifer Tenasco, Stella Chabot, Earl McGregor, Lionel Odjick, Eddie Cote, Jocko Ottawa,... More

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Visiting with Morrisseau Gathering

Visiting with Morrisseau: Gathering at the Carleton University Art Gallery November 18 - November 19, 2023 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Visiting with Morrisseau is a free public gathering centered around stories—visual and oral—inspired by the art and legacy of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) and Anishinaabeg medicine teachings. This... More

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Entanglements and Teachings at the Agnes

Entanglements and Teachings in the Art of Norval Morrisseau
 Dr Carmen Robertson On September 20th 2023, Carmen Robertson delivered the Frances K. Smith lecture delivered by Carmen Robertson at the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery.  To study the art of Norval Morrisseau is to become entangled in several complicatedly intertwisted narrative... More

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Medicine Currents Exhibition

Norval Morrisseau: Medicine Currents September 17 - December 17, 2023 Carleton University Art Gallery Connect to the healing force of Norval Morrisseau's work “There’s lots of stories that are told in Ojibwe but that wasn’t enough for me. I wanted to draw them—that’s from my own self—my own idea what they look like.” (Norval... More

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Elders Circle at Kitigan Zibi

On June 2nd we were honoured to visit with the Elder’s Circle at Kitigan Zibi to discuss the Morrisseau Project and to ask for advice about research directions and priorities. Linda Grussani is a member of Kitigan Zibi and it was wonderful to have her along for our discussion in the circle. In addition... More

Monday, March 2, 2020

Screening of There Are No Fakes

  Dr Carmen Robertson (Canada Research Chair in North American Art & Material Culture) will be hosting a screening of “There Are No Fakes” — the acclaimed new Canadian film that documents the widespread forgery of works by iconic Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. The screening will take place on campus on Monday, March 2nd at... More

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