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Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 Territory, currently residing in Ottawa. She was recently shortlisted for the 2018 Sobey Art Award and has exhibited internationally.

Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Buffalo, New York and Toronto. His research explores graphic design’s entanglement with power, standards and legitimacy. Chris is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY.

Winona Wheeler is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation, Treaty 5 Territory, though her family hails from George Gordon’s First Nation, Treaty 4 territory. She is an Indigenous studies historian at the University of Saskatchewan

Graphic Design

Indigenous

Public art

Conceptual

Chris Lee, Joi T. Arcand and Winona Wheeler sit down to discuss what it means to reclaim agency over a history that incorrectly credits figures like James Evans with the invention of Cree syllabic writing. Arcand’s clever political signage and Wheeler’s careful historiography reveal an aboriginal history that has been contorted by colonial institutions. 

“I’m a Little Too Rebellious for That”: A Conversation with Joi T. Arcand and Winona Wheeler

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Joi T. Arcand

“I’m a Little Too Rebellious for That”: A Conversation with Joi T. Arcand and Winona Wheeler