Café Culture with Steven Loft

Dr. Steven Loft
Location: 
MacLaren Art Centre, Rotary Education Centre
Fees: 
$5 | free to members and students
Café Culture presents Steven Loft

Bringing Down the House: Aboriginal Art History and the Institution

Thursday, February 3, 7 to 9 pm

$5 | Free for members and students
 
Acclaimed curator and writer Steven Loft delivers a new lecture on how penetrating critical reassessments of the past by contemporary Aboriginal artists and scholars redefined the field of art history in universities and museums and became the major story in contemporary art in Canada in the first decade of the 21st century.

Steven Loft’s lecture is presented in conjunction with past now, a double solo exhibition by Toronto artist Meryl McMaster and Vancouver artist Luke Parnell, rising Aboriginal artists whose works address historical representations of and by indigenous people, embodying past motifs in contemporary forms. past now is co-curated by Suzanne Morrissette and Lisa Myers and is on view at the MacLaren until February 21, 2011.

Steven Loft is the National Visiting Trudeau Fellow at Ryerson University, Toronto and Scholar-in-Residence at the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre. He was previously Executive Director of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, curator-in-residence at the National Gallery of Canada and Director of Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg. Loft is on the curatorial collective for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: The Next 500 Years (January 22 – May 8, 2011), the banner exhibition for Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010, organized by Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Urban Shaman and others.

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