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MWF108

Winter 2023

Christi Belcourt

Catherine O'Halloran, Laura Salamanca, Shantelle Spencer

"Every good revolution has good revolutionary art"

2017

2012

2014

1966

1993

Eldest child of Tony Belcourt and Judith Pierce Martin in Scarborough, Ontario.. Her father is a Métis Rights leader and activist.

Her family is from the Métis community Manitow Sâkahikan (Lac St. Anne, AB). Her family moved in with her grandparents in Edmonton shortly after birth

The family moved to Ottawa in 1970 when father became first president of Native Council of Canada (now Congress of Aboriginal Peoples)

Early Life

http://www.christibelcourt.com/Artist/aboutbioAncestry.html

Christi experienced a "dark period" as a young adult, after leaving high school

In 1990, she was introduced to Wilfred Peltier and his sister Yvonne McCrae. They have a profound impact on the trajectory of her life

She had an artistic breakthrough in 1993, inspired by beaded vamps on a pair of mukluks given to her by Yvonne

Art As Resistance

Source of all images: http://christibelcourt.com

Untitled, 1993

First attempt at painting beadwork

Resilience of the Flower Beadwork People, 1999

What We Teach Our Children, 2008

Artwork in the Toronto Birth Centre

Bloodletting: Does This Make You More Comfortable With Who I Am? 2004

Goodland,

2008

Giniigaaniimenaaning

Remembrance & restoration

"The glass design tells a story. It is a story of Aboriginal people, with our ceremonies, languages, and cultural knowledge intact; through the darkness of the residential school era; to an awakening sounded by a drum; an apology that spoke to the heart; hope for reconciliation; transformation and healing through dance, ceremony, language; and resilience into the present day."

“....Reconciliation is not just one sided. It's not just us healing ourselves. Reconciliation means the two sides coming together.”

Walking with our Sisters

"This project is about these women, paying respect to their lives and existence on this earth. They are not forgotten. They are sisters, mothers, daughters, cousins, aunties, grandmothers, friends and wives. They have been cared for, they have been loved, and they are missing."

WWOS

"Collectively we are creating one unified voice to honour these women, their families and call for attention to be paid to this issue. There is power in numbers, and there is power in art."

Activism & Collective work

"Reconciliation without returning to land is not possible"

Nimkii Aazhibikong

Independent indigenous led camp where youth and elders come to connect to the land, each other, and pass down language and traditional knowledge.

It is a camp for cultural resurgence of sustainable indigenous practices and restoration of land and resource protection and management.

"We are merely one small part in this big, beautiful universe, and our place is really just to walk softly and not leave any harm behind us [...] we are beholden to everything else to live, and nothing needs us to live"

Water Song, 2014

Acrylic on canvas 80" x 152"

Awards & Recognition

Celebration of Nations, Outstanding Achievement Award For Visual Arts (2022)

Governor General's Innovation Awards, Recipient (2016)

Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Winner, Toronto, Ontario (2016)

People's Choice, Voted #1, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (2015/16)

Aboriginal Arts Award 2014 Laureate, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2014)

Influential Women of Northern Ontario, Aboriginal Leadership Award, Sudbury, Ontario (2014)

Chalmers Family Fund, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2010)

Aboriginal Arts Projects Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2009)

Aboriginal Traditional Arts Program, Canada Council For The Arts, Ottawa, Ontario (2009)

Northern Arts Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2007)

Aboriginal People's Collaborative Exchange Program, Canada Council For The Arts, Ottawa, Ontario

(2007)

Judges Choice Award, Works on Paper Exhibit, Espanola, Ontario (2006)

Mid-Career Artist Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2004)

Aboriginal Arts Projects Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2004)

Awarded 1st place - Mixed Media, LaCloche Art Show, Whitefish Falls, Ontario (2004)

Artist-in-residence, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Klienburg, Ontario (2004)

Awarded 1st place - Acrylics, LaCloche Art Show, Whitefish Falls, Ontario (2002)

Emerging Artist Grant Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario (2000)

Emerging Artist Grant Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario (1999)

"For those who know me, they know how reluctant I am to accept awards. Because, while we rightly celebrate the achievements and compassionate work of my fellow recipients, for me, I do not feel my work is separate from the work of the hundreds and thousands of Indigenous Peoples and Nations who are doing work that brings health, healing or light to their communities and yet go unheralded."

References

References

Aboriginal Multimedia Society of Alberta (AMSA). "Giniigaaniimenaaning (Looking Ahead) by Christi Belcourt." Windspeaker. 2016, June 15. 34(6): 7. Gale OneFile: CPI.Q, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A467830932/CPI?u=rpu_main&sid=summon&xid=ca5aacc8.

Anderson C. Christi Belcourt. Chatelaine 2020 Mar;93(2):66-67.

Anderson, K, Campbell, M., & Belcourt, K., editors. Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. Alberta; University of Alberta Press, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ryerson/detail.action?docID=4891128.

Belcourt, C. Reclaiming ourselves by name: contesting Canada's colonial names, by language and by map. Briarpatch. 2013 Jul 1; https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/reclaiming-ourselves-by-name

Belcourt, C, et al. In Conversation with Christi Belcourt. Fashioning Resurgence, special issue of Fashion Studies. 2022; 1(1): 1-20, https://www.fashionstudies.ca/in-conversation-with-christi-belcourt, https://doi.org/10.38055/FR010105.

Hume. Review of Keetsahnak/Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters ed. by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt. Great Plains Quarterly. 2020; 40(1): 107-108. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/gpq.2020.0007.

Macklin, R. Review of Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters ed. by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 2021; 33(2): 274-275. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/806462.

Morin, B, local journalism IR. Activist Chrisit Belcourt Urges: Counteract The Chaos by Standing Up for What's Right. The Canadian Pres, 2020, May 6.

Nahwegahbow, B. Belcourt project paying tribute to 600 souls. Windspeaker. 2013, Aug. 31(5): 12. Gale OneFile:CPI. Q, ink.gale.com/apps/doc/A339529625/CPI?u=rpu_main&sid=summon&xid=8eee0794

Walker N. Christi Belcourt. Canadian Geographic. 2015; 12;135(6):23.

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