How does that feel?
I’m incredibly proud and honored to take on this role and I am grateful to be welcomed as a guest in this territory; the Chickasaw homeland is in the South Eastern United States, and my Reservation is in Oklahoma. That medicine line or border between the United States and Canada is a colonial construct, but when I think about Indigenous leadership of our cultural institutions, I’m still dreaming of Indigenous folx guiding the vision of the galleries and museums in our own territories.
You grew up for a time in Regina, home of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, though your career and studies took you elsewhere before you ended up back there for this position.