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Joi T. Arcand – Harbourfront Centre Visual Artist-in-Residence 2019–2020

Joi T. Arcand is the Visual Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre.

“THE ONLY TONGUE IN VOGUE” is a site specific installation. The title refers to a future where Indigenous languages are once again “in vogue” on Indigenous land. Artist Joi Arcand Arcand is known for working with the Plains Cree syllabics, often in the form of signage.

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Bridget Thompson Bridget Thompson

Joi T. Arcand First Artist-in-Residence at Expanded SAW Gallery

SAW gallery's Nordic Lab promotes cultural exchanges between Indigenous people in circumpolar nations. The Nordic Lab welcomes their first artist-in-residence, Sobey Art Award-shortlisted artist Joi T. Arcand. Arcand took on a hybrid role with the gallery, becoming the Nordic Lab's first program director.

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Bridget Thompson Bridget Thompson

Maura Doyle and Sidney Masuga - Open Studio Visiting Artists

Maura Doyle presents new screenprinted works based on her daily practice of mind-stream journaling and left-hand ink drawing. Doyle brings her background in artist publications to her Open Studio residency. The creation of her Vitruvian Mother (Flesh Knot) (2019) prints are drawn in counterpoint to the classical proportion and symmetry of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.

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