By Crystal St.Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Earthwork opened Sept. 4 at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. It is the first major exhibit curated by Mikinaak Migwans, an Anishinaabekwe from Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation. Migwans is curator of Indigenous Contemporary Art at the Art Museum and assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the university. Inspiration for Earthwork came from Migwans’ interpretation of Indigenous beadwork, which refers to a way of working together rather than a singular object. They then reframed the idea into artwork of the land. “Earthwork includes nine Indigenous artists, art collectives or activist collectives, and they’re all thinking about ways that we can think about relating to Earth outside of the idea of resources or material, something more along the…
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