This spring and summer, contemporary artist Cindy Baker will mentor Roseanna Joy Nay, an artist and third-generation farmer originating from Fallis, Alberta; and currently practicing on Treaty 6 Territory.
View insights into their one-on-one mentorship sessions by clicking through the slides below, and check back soon for more details about the pairing's public programming.
Roseanna Joy Nay is an artist and third-generation farmer originating from Fallis, Alberta. They are practicing on Treaty 6 Territory.
Roseanna graduated with a BFA from the University of Alberta in 2018. They are currently working at the Art Gallery of St. Albert in the position of Program Assistant. Their work focuses on performance, through means of sculpture, textile creation, video and film photography.
They are looking at how formative personal narratives endure and cross-over from past to present, ultimately projecting themselves into our future through day-to-day objects and interactions. The resulting ephemera are accompaniments to the act of remembering through familiar objects.
They are handling concepts of queerness through their own queer identity as well as respectfully looking to a history of queer people in rural Canada, specifically the prairies.
Website: roseannajoynay.xyz
Cindy Baker is a contemporary artist based in Western Canada whose work engages with queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art discourses. Committed to ethical community engagement and critical social enquiry, Baker's interdisciplinary research-based practice draws upon 25 years working, volunteering, and organizing in the communities of which she is part.
She moves fluidly between the arts, humanities, and social sciences, emphasizing the theoretical and conceptual over material concerns. Baker holds an MFA from the University of Lethbridge where she received a SSHRC grant for her research in performance in the absence of the artist's body; she has exhibited and performed across Canada and internationally. Helping found important community and advocacy organizations over the course of her career, Baker continues to maintain volunteer leadership roles across her communities.
Website: cindy-baker.ca
