MICHAEL BELMORE and A.J. CASSON: kweshkdaadiimgak Miinwaa Bakeziibiisan / Confluences and Tributaries. Oct 2018 to March 2019 Ottawa Art Gallery. Michael Belmore will assert an Indigenous, Anishinaabe world view, re-affirming Native ways of knowing into the stories we tell of the land now geographically defined as Canada

Joi T Arcand - Prix Sobey pour les arts 2018. Membre de la Nation crie de Muskeg Lake, en Saskatchewan (Traité no 6), Joi T. Arcand est actuellement artiste en résidence au Wanuskewin Heritage Park de Saskatoon.

What occurred at Beaux-arts during BACA was an intervention on said community. Joi T. Arcand’s The Beautiful NDN Super Maidens (2014) took up an entire wall alongside her NDN super-maiden trading cards.

Artist Joi T. Arcand, who is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, presented a neon work entitled ᐁᑳᐏᔭ ᓀᐯᐃᐧᓯ (ekawiya nepewisi) (2017). Arcand embeds Cree syllabics, thus interpolating into the symbolic order (capitalism, patriarchy) a language for the most part readable only by the members of her own community.

Gallery 101 in partnership with ASINABKA proudly presents “Hot Culture,” an art show focused on Indigenous made fashion, textile and crafts, bringing together designers and creators working with traditional and contemporary materials.

Canadian Art's Agenda report on Michael Belmore’s solo exhibition, 'thunder sky turbulent water' at Central Art Garage. Work resembling the hood of a classic Firebird Trans-Am is cut and shaped out of huge sheets of copper and suspended from the ceiling with mechanic’s hoist, representing the upper and lower worlds in the Anishinaabe universe.

Bozica Radjenovic's Included/Excluded is one of five performance artworks featured in the inaugural exhibition at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Radjenovic works in sculpture and performance, with an interest in soft materials. Using balls of red wool and two red knitted wearable sculptures, this art piece and performance is a Sisyphean labour.

Blogger Zara (xolovexo) explores Ottawa by bike for ALT Hotel Ottawa. A bike ride through Hintonburg, Little Italy and Chinatown, hidden away in this part of the city is Central Art Garage. The gallery, located in a reclaimed auto mechanic garage, contains carefully curated contemporary shows of local, national and international artists.

Arcand has become known for creating public signage in Plains Cree syllabics. Arcand has said, as a person just walking down the street, I started to see the shapes of the syllables in traffic signs…So I just decided — what would the world look like through this lens?

In this exhibition Joi T. Arcand’s neon channel sign presents language as a medium of communication between Indigenous persons, but also as a potential tool for coalition-building outside of the Indigenous community.

For visual artist Joi Arcand, the written Cree language is not only imbued with cultural significance - it's an aesthetically beautiful form all unto itself. Some of her past work depicts a world where English and French signage is replaced with the Cree language. Insurgence/Resurgence is on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

The Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Awards have been announced for 2018. Camille Turner is a Finalist for the Artist Prize.

The stakes in the Sobey Art Award have been raised significantly for its 2018 edition—doubled, in fact. And now we know who is in the running for them.

Artist Ursula Johnson describes her practice and her multi media installation and performance, the exhibition the 'Indian Truckhouse of High Art' at Central Art Garage gallery. Ursula Johnson is a multidisciplinary Mi'kmaq artist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work combines the Mi'kmaq tradition of basket weaving with sculpture, installation, and performance art.

In huge neon, Joi T Arcand is rewriting everyday signs in Cree‘The language wasn't lost — it was taken. And we're here to take it back.’

CBC Arts: In Truckhouse, artist Ursula Johnson is selling the kind of "Indian" knick-knackery that should, by now, make us angry: conveniently-sized dreamcatchers, baskets, beaded necklaces. For Johnson, it is as much about getting rid of these items of cultural commodification as it was about buying them for her participants.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is getting closer to reaching the fundraising goal for its new building. Among the artists reportedly doing new commissions are 2017 Sobey Award winner Ursula Johnson, as well as Sonny Assu and Frank Shebageget.

Nova Scotian artist Ursula Johnson's remarkable practice is built on memory and community. At this time when Canadians are celebrating and challenging the memory of nationhood, Johnson's work embodies a considered, critical, yet generous lens through which multiple histories and communities may be considered.

ᓇᒨᔭ ᓂᑎᑌᐧᐃᐧᓇ ᓂᑕᔮᐣ is an installation displayed on the archway outside the Walter Phillips Gallery by Cree artist Joi T. Arcand. The piece is a visual reminder of the Nêhiyawêwin or Plains Cree (Y dialect) language, and translates into "I don't have my words."

I came upon one of Joi T. Arcand’s now-viral syllabic interventions installed into the staircase leading up to the second floor of the WAG: Don’t Speak English (2017). Arcand, a renowned syllabics nerd, restructures spatialities with her mediations that immediately alienate settlers with their presence.