Join us on zoom April 20th at 7pm EDT for a discussion about Web, Web Art & Activism with media influencer and aspiring filmmaker Sherry Mckay, visual artist and social activist Sheri Osden Nault & video game maker and researcher Maize Longboat. The gathering will be moderated by Algonquin Knowledge Carrier Monique Manatch.
SPEAKERS
Sherry Mckay is an Ojibway Anishinaabe woman from Treaty 1 Territory, born and raised in Winnipeg Manitoba and band member of Sakgeeng First Nation. She is a proud mother of 4, Social media influencer and aspiring filmmaker. She primarily uses her Tiktok account to share Indigenous humour and awareness. Her account has grown to nearly 370k followers and over 11 million likes. She often highlights small Indigenous businesses and products as well as amplifying organizations and events she believes in.
Sheri Osden Nault is a visual artist, social activist, DIY enthusiast, and occasional writer. They are Nehiyaw and Red River Michif of the Charette and Belanger families, with Saulteax and Assiniboine ancestry. Personal and political, their art practice is grounded in Indigenous, queer, and feminist world views. Seeking social and ecological responsibility and kinship, they explore intimacy and permeability between human and non-human bodies. Their practice includes sculpture, community projects, performance, Indigenous tattoo revival, zines, and more. They received their MFA from York University in 2017 and their BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts 2012. Recent exhibitions in Toronto include the body as a fever dream curated by Dallas Fellini, at Xpace, Toronto (2020); PillOry*4, Toronto (2020); Where the Shoreline Meets the Water curated by Syrus Marcus Ware at the ArQuives, Toronto (2020); as well as Off-Centre at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina (2019); Fix Your Hearts or Die at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2019). They were a participant in the 2019 Banff Centre Indigenous Arts residency Ghost Days, and the 2017 cohort of the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, on Toronto Island.
Maize Longboat is Kanien’kehá:ka from Six Nations of the Grand River and was raised on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation near Vancouver, BC. He is a Developer Relations Manager with Unity Technologies and served as Skins Workshops Associate Director with Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) from 2019 to 2021. He holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University. His MA research examined Indigenous videogame development through the production of his own game Terra Nova, an award-winning cooperative platformer with an interactive narrative.