Join us on Tuesday, April 28, at 2 PM for a talk with Michèle St-Amand.

Conversations with Indigenous Curators is a new mini-series organized by the IFRC. Grounding curatorial practice as a site of futurity, relationality, and land-based thinking, this series highlights Indigenous curators working in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) who are reshaping how exhibitions are conceived, who they serve, and how knowledge circulates. Through public dialogue, we will explore curatorial practices rooted in community accountability, language, and sovereignty.

Michèle St-Amand is a member of the Wendat Nation through her mother’s lineage. She is a candidate for a master’s degree in research-creation in art history at UQAM. She holds a master’s degree in clinical sexology (UQAM), a degree in visual arts (UQAM), a graduate-level microprogram in art therapy (UQAT), and a degree in museology and art exhibition (UQAM). As a sexologist and psychotherapist for several years, she has integrated art into her practice, primarily with women who are victims of sexual assault and in post-traumatic interventions.
She is currently interested in the decolonization of Indigenous women’s sexuality through artistic expression. She recently curated an exhibition at Galerie B-312, Oya’wih[1], a uchronia gathering seven Indigenous artists identifying as women, queer women or two-spirit. The artists of different generations and Nations were invited to reflect on Indigenous women’s sexuality in a world in which colonization never happened. Furthermore, Michèle St-Amand is committed to integrating Indigenous protocols into research and curatorial practices.

[1] « This tastes good » in Wendat

Time: Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 2 PM EST
Location: EV 10.705, Indigenous Futures Research Centre HQ, Concordia University

All are welcome.

This event is generously supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Canadian Art.