This year, the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph is honored to host Candice Hopkins, a curator and writer of Carcross/Tagish First Nation whose work explores the intersections of history, contemporary art, and Indigeneity.

Candice Hopkins– 03/ 19

MacKinnon Building Room 113 at 6 pm

Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Red Hook, New York. Her writing and curatorial practice explore the intersections of history, contemporary art, and Indigeneity. She is Executive Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project, Taghkanic, NY. She is curator of the exhibitions,  Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination Since 1969, at the Hessel Museum; Impossible Music, co-curated with Raven Chacon and Stavia Grimani at the Miller ICA, and the touring exhibitions, Soundings; An Exhibition in Five Parts co-curated with Dylan Robinson, and ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ, Double Vision,  featuring textiles, prints and drawings by Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk. She was the Senior Curator for the inaugural 2019 and 2022 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art and part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the work of the media collective Isuma; documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; and Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Her notable essays include “The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier,” in the documenta 14 Reader; “Outlawed Social Life,” in South as a State of Mind; and “The Appropriation Debates (or The Gallows of History),” in Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press, 2020).

Open Studios – 03/ 19

2 PM- 5:30 PM / 7:30 PM- 9:00 PM

our MFA students will open their studios to the public before and after the lecture.

The University of Guelph offers a two-year Master of Fine Arts Degree that combines intensive studio concentration with seminars in theory and pedagogy. The MFA students are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of one of Canada’s premier art programs and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress. Please plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture (2 PM- 5:30 PM / 7:30 PM- 9:00 PM)  

Complimentary parking is provided in parking lots P23 and P19.

Volunteers will be on hand to offer guidance and support.