Join us for an engaging online discussion between renowned curator Candice Hopkins, Executive Director, Forge Project, Griffin Director Lisa Baldissera and Adjunct Curator Emily Butler.
In this one-hour discussion, Executive Director and Chief Curator Candice Hopkins will discuss the establishment of Forge Project (New York), its transition to a non- profit organisation, its commitment to investing in Indigenous leaders and artists to counter ongoing and historical inequity. Hopkins will also outline her curatorial leadership, current projects and future vision for the Forge Project.
The talk is part of the special 10 th anniversary “Conversations on Collecting” series - an ongoing public program delivered in person and via Zoom – that bring together collectors, curators and experts in an exploration of contemporary art and collecting practices. Key topics include the close relationship between collecting and philanthropy, from nurturing artistic talent, building community to leaving transformational legacies.
Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Red Hook, New York. Her writing and curatorial practice explore the intersections of history, contemporary art, and Indigeneity. She is Executive Director & Chief Curator of Forge Project, Taghkanic, New York, and Fellow in Indigenous Art History and Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She is curator of the exhibitions Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination Since 1969, at the Hessel Museum of Art, and the touring exhibitions Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, co-curated with Dylan Robinson, and ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ Double Vision, featuring textiles, prints and drawings by Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk. She was the Senior Curator for the inaugural 2019 and 2022 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art and part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the work of the media collective Isuma; as well as documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; and Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Her notable essays include “The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier,” in the documenta 14 Reader; “Outlawed Social Life,” in South as a State of Mind; and “The Appropriation Debates (or The Gallows of History),” in Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press, 2020).
Forge Project is a Native-led non-profit organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture.
The international talk series is co-curated by Director Lisa Baldissera and Adjunct Curator Emily Butler.