S02E07: Cathy Mattes: Curation, Beading, and Radical Stitch

Dr. Cathy Mattes is a Michif curator (MMF citizen, Westman Local-Southwest Region), writer, and art history professor based out of Sprucewoods, Manitoba, Canada. Her curation, research and writing centers on dialogic and Indigenous knowledge-centered curatorial practice as strategies for care. She has a PhD in Indigenous Studies from the University of Manitoba, and currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg in the History of Art and Curatorial Studies programs. Mattes has been beading since she was 20 years old, when she was first taught by her auntie Jean Baron Ward.  Since then, she has taught beading and moccasin-making in workshops, university courses, and around her kitchen table with family and friends.

 

Resources from this episode

Rielisms: Used copies of the catalogue are available online. See also https://www.reginalibrary.ca/dunlop-art-gallery/browse-exhibitions/108573 and this review: https://www.cliffeyland.com/riel.html

 

Hard Birth: https://www.wag.ca/exhibitions/kwaata-nihtaawakihk/

 

Radical Stitch: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/radical-stitch

 

The transcript from this episode can be found here.

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