Visual Arts Residency: Meeting for Teas

Wayne Baerwaldt is a visual arts curator and media producer based in Canada. As a gallery director and curator he has worked at various cultural institutions including Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Power Plant, Toronto and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary. Recent co-curated projects and publications as an independent curator include If I May Digress: Richard Boulet and Collaborators, The Shadow of the Sun: Ross Bleckner and Zachari Logan (with Leah Taylor and Jennifer McGregor), Thierry Marceau: The Great One’s Back for Nuit Blanche Edmonton at the Art Gallery of Alberta and Meeting for Teas: On the Road to Decolonization (with Jennifer Crane, Kimisoo Goodtrack, Bryan Mulvihill, Qiming Sun, Xiao Han and others). He recently guest edited Issue #62 of PUBLIC, The Gender-Diverse Lens, and conducts ongoing research projects as a Michele Sereda Artist in Residence for Socially Engaged Practice at the University of Regina (MAP and Hill/Levine Business Schools). He is a board member of the Hnatyshyn Foundation, Ottawa and is on the Advisory Committee of participant, inc. in New York City.

Jennifer Crane is an award winning photographic artist with a significant exhibition record over the past two decades. Crane’s studio art practice explores the relationship between the body and the lens in both historical and contemporary photography using a combination of experimental, analogue and digital photographic processes. Her work has been exhibited widely both nationally, (including Gallery44, La Central Powerhouse, Dazibao, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Eastern Edge, The Floating Gallery, Mann Art Gallery, PAVEDArts, The Yukon Art Centre)  and internationally (including Houston Centre of Photography, USA, Singapore International Photo Festival, The National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal,  MOMA,Tbilisi, Georgia, Gallery Zall, Wuhan, China, and Centro Colomba Americano in Medellin Colombia).  Her work can be found in private and public collections including The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Crane has received funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Crane is of settler ancestry and currently lives in Saskatoon on Treaty Six Territory and the traditional homelands of the Metis, where she is Professor and Chair of Photography and Digital Imaging in the Department of Art and Art History, at The University of Saskatchewan. Her recent  work titled: Tea with Anna involves experimentations with home-brewed tea based photographic developers used to process film and photographic prints.

Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. Adrian has a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. He is an interdisciplinary artist and exhibits nationally and internationally. His performance art looks at identity construction, specifically the hybridization of the Indian, the cowboy, the shaman and Two Spirit being. Buffalo Boy, The Shaman Exterminator are two reoccurring personas. His paintings are varied yet his use of black and white monochromatic paintings that depict bison in imagined landscapes are melancholic, memorializing, whimsical, they evoke ideas cultural fragility, resilience and nostalgia. His installation work primarily examines the residential school experience; He has used the material culture from Old Sun Residential School on his Nation to create works that speak to genocide, loss and resilience.

He was a participant in the Canadian Forces Artist Program, which sent him to Afghanistan. Adrian was awarded the Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2018. REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award –Hnatyshyn Foundation 2017. He was awarded the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009, the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003.
 

Karen Tam is a Tiohtià:ke/Montréal-based artist and curator whose research focuses on the constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities. In her installations, she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. She has exhibited her work and participated in residencies in North America, Europe, and China, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts du Québec, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Tam was the winner of the 2021 Giverny Capital Prize awarded by the Fondation Giverny pour l'art contemporain, a finalist for the 2017 Louis-Comtois Prize, a finalist for the 2016 Prix en art actuel from the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec, and long-listed for the 2010 and 2016 Sobey Art Awards. 

Tam holds an MFA in Sculpture (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and a PhD in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London). She is the Adjunct Curator at Griffin Art Projects and is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau.