Tuesday October 21, 2025 7pm - 8:30pm (1 Hour 30 Minutes)
Gallery / Exhibit Lecture / Seminar Workshop / Class Meeting / Club Virtual / Online
[email protected]
902.532.7069
Doors open at 6:30pm
Event in Room: Studio (upstairs)
Explore the Canada Council Art Bank’s textile collection in conversation with curator Julie Graff. Discover the stories woven into the exhibition Resistant Fibres (Âjagemô Exhibition Space, Ottawa, June '25-May '26).
This talk continues ARTSPLACE's experiments with new tools for the age-old art of conversation. Join us in-person or online for another in our series of direct, personal dialogues with artists and institutions across the continent.
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Virtual Chat with Julie Graff
Curator of Resistant Fibres, Canada Council Art Bank exhibition (June 2025-May 2026, Ottawa)
FREE to participate (donations welcome)
JOIN US IN-PERSON:
Upstairs at ARTSPLACE.
PARTICIPATE ONLINE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vwYe8AQXRDSdzbqNTlS03w
The conversation will be held in English, with English subtitles and French translation available.
RESISTANT FIBRES features works by Siku Allooloo, Haley Bassett, Bob Boyer, Evelyn Coutellier, Erika DeFreitas, Frances Dorsey, Nancy Edell, General Idea, Chantal Gibson, Murray Gibson, Zoe Lambert, Joanne Lynes, Ann Newdigate, Michèle Provost, Ruth Scheuing, Carl Stewart and Barbara Todd.
| www.canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo/resistant-fibres
JULIE GRAFF is a researcher, cultural worker and curator based in Ottawa. With a PhD in art history and social anthropology, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire international de recherche sur l’imaginaire du Nord, de l’hiver et de l’Arctique. Since 2022, she has served as Artistic Director of Maison MONA.
| http://www.canadacouncil.ca/.../resi.../curatorial-statement
ART BANK:
The Canada Council Art Bank makes contemporary art available to a wide public across the country through art rental, exhibitions and outreach activities. With more than 17,000 works by over 3,000 artists, the Art Bank is home to the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art in the world.
| www.artbank.ca
ÂJAGEMÔ:
The Art Bank presents rotating exhibitions in Âjagemô, the Canada Council’s exhibition space (150 Elgin St., Ottawa) that offer engaging perspectives on global issues, such as climate change, supporting Indigenous cultural sovereignty and demonstrating inclusion. The exhibitions also offer the wider public an opportunity to see the Art Bank collection.
| www.canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo
[email protected]
902.532.7069
Doors open at 6:30pm
Event in Room: Studio (upstairs)
Explore the Canada Council Art Bank’s textile collection in conversation with curator Julie Graff. Discover the stories woven into the exhibition Resistant Fibres (Âjagemô Exhibition Space, Ottawa, June '25-May '26).
This talk continues ARTSPLACE's experiments with new tools for the age-old art of conversation. Join us in-person or online for another in our series of direct, personal dialogues with artists and institutions across the continent.
-------------------------------
Virtual Chat with Julie Graff
Curator of Resistant Fibres, Canada Council Art Bank exhibition (June 2025-May 2026, Ottawa)
FREE to participate (donations welcome)
JOIN US IN-PERSON:
Upstairs at ARTSPLACE.
PARTICIPATE ONLINE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vwYe8AQXRDSdzbqNTlS03w
The conversation will be held in English, with English subtitles and French translation available.
RESISTANT FIBRES features works by Siku Allooloo, Haley Bassett, Bob Boyer, Evelyn Coutellier, Erika DeFreitas, Frances Dorsey, Nancy Edell, General Idea, Chantal Gibson, Murray Gibson, Zoe Lambert, Joanne Lynes, Ann Newdigate, Michèle Provost, Ruth Scheuing, Carl Stewart and Barbara Todd.
| www.canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo/resistant-fibres
JULIE GRAFF is a researcher, cultural worker and curator based in Ottawa. With a PhD in art history and social anthropology, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire international de recherche sur l’imaginaire du Nord, de l’hiver et de l’Arctique. Since 2022, she has served as Artistic Director of Maison MONA.
| http://www.canadacouncil.ca/.../resi.../curatorial-statement
ART BANK:
The Canada Council Art Bank makes contemporary art available to a wide public across the country through art rental, exhibitions and outreach activities. With more than 17,000 works by over 3,000 artists, the Art Bank is home to the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art in the world.
| www.artbank.ca
ÂJAGEMÔ:
The Art Bank presents rotating exhibitions in Âjagemô, the Canada Council’s exhibition space (150 Elgin St., Ottawa) that offer engaging perspectives on global issues, such as climate change, supporting Indigenous cultural sovereignty and demonstrating inclusion. The exhibitions also offer the wider public an opportunity to see the Art Bank collection.
| www.canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo
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[email protected]
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