Facilitated by Akin Indigenous Elder Artist in Residence, Catherine Tammaro
With Annika Hoefs
Fridays, 6 PM – 8:30 PM • November 1, 8, and 29; December 6. Due to limited capacity, we ask participants to plan to come to all four sessions. No prior experience is necessary.
Catherine Tammaro, Multi ~ Media Artist and Wyandot Tradition Keeper, will lead a very special series of four workshops at the Gardiner Museum titled tayuwé:rih or Place of Healing.
The participants will create sacred space, within which we will cultivate healing through creativity with clay. Each session will focus on a clay-based project which will encourage and support personal, earth and community healing. Catherine will guide and focus the group, assisted by Annika Hoefs, a potter from the Gardiner.
The workshops accompany the presentation of Every One and Sister at the Gardiner, two works that speak to the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, queer, and trans people.
This workshop centres LGBTQQIP2SAA* and BIPOC community members and is limited to twelve people. We are reaching out through our community networks for participants rather than through public postings. Please share this among your networks, as you wish.
To enquire or register, please email sboyd@gardinermuseum.com.
About Catherine Tammaro:
Catherine Tammaro was born in Toronto, and raised in Toronto and the US. She has a 50-year history of art making, including painting, fine art and award-winning design, theatre, soundscape/installation, musical collaboration, photographic/written journalism and extensive digital work/graphic design. Her multi-media works have been exhibited in traditional/alternative gallery spaces and her written works and musical compositions have been published in various online blogs and installations. Catherine has been involved in a wide array of interdisciplinary collaborations, ongoing special projects and themed exhibitions, as originator, curator, performer and exhibitor. She has been working with the academic community of late and is currently involved with several projects such as The Daughters of Aataentsic, The Star Collective, Walking With Our Sisters and others. She is a seated Tradition Keeper for the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation; Speckled Turtle Clan. Catherine is Akin Studio's premiere Indigenous Elder Artist in Residence, and is working with many agencies, city wide and beyond, to advise and facilitate art making/teaching workshops, as well as maintaining her own arts practise regarding spiritual and ever changing realities as they pertain to our connection to the sacred multiverse.
image credit: aǫmę́tsaʔ eyǫmaaʔtateyaʔt "the earth, they her body will burn” (Controlled Burn) by Catherine Tammaro, 2017 Acrylic On Canvas With Quills.