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Maria Hupfield's public talk\, If You Want to B e Included You Have to Participate\, is about rising above through the act of doing and through embodied knowledge. Topics include the politics of rec ognition\, cultural revitalization\, native feminism\, social activism\, th e act of refusal\, and positioning reconciliation in a post Idle No More so ciety.
Brooklyn-based artist Maria Hupfield is a member of the Wasauk sing First Nation in Ontario. Recently\, she received national recognition in the United States from the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation for her hand-sewn industrial felt sculptures. She also received a long-term grant f rom the Canada Council for the Arts to make work in New York. Her nine-foot birchbark canoe made of industrial felt was assembled and performed in Ven ice\, Italy\, for the premiere of Jiimaan\, which coincided with the Venice Biennale.
Hupfield's upcoming projects include #callresponse\, a mul tifaceted performance-art-based project that is part of the Canada Council for the Arts {Re}Conciliation Initiative. #callresponse presents the work o f First Nations\, Inuit\, and Métis women as artists central to the strengt h and healing of their communities. Other forthcoming projects include Free Play at Trestle Gallery in New York (with Jason Lujan) and much wider than a line\,the title of this year’s SITElines biennale in Santa Fe.
Hup field is an advocate of native community arts and activism\; the founder of 7th Generation Image Makers\, a native youth arts and mural outreach progr am in downtown Toronto\, through Native Child and Family Services of Toront o\; and co-owner of Native Art Department International. She was Assistant Professor in Visual Art and Material Practice at Emily Carr University of A rt and Design from 2007 to 2011.
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