In April our team traveled to New York to install two short-term exhibitions of Jaad Kuujus Meghann O’Brien’s woven and digital artwork, first at Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan and then at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. This was the first time that Meghann’s incredible Chilkat and Ravenstail-style woven robe Sky Blanket was exhibited […]
Exciting news! We were awarded an Honorable Mention for our DIS’23 pictorial “Transmediating Sky Blanket: Tensions with a Digital Jacquard Loom”. The paper is open access ! Abstract: This pictorial presents an ongoing collaboration between a Haida/Kwakwaka’wakw/Irish artist and a multi-disciplinary team of settler researchers around Sky Blanket, a hybrid Yeil Koowu (Raven’s Tail) and […]
The SPAO Centre Gallery proudly presents Intimate Textures of the Digital World featuring the photo-based work of AM Dumouchel Gilles Tarabiscuité Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) The artists in the exhibition negotiate between digital and physical spaces, continually asking viewers to orient themselves between physicality and abstraction. The artworks capture a tactile and sensory subject matter, […]
Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) is one of the seven incredible artists featured in the exhibition A Thread That Never Breaks, as a part of Indigenous Fashion Week, Toronto. Curators Lisa Myers and Sage Paul originally intended to install the works in a physical gallery, but Covid-19 restrictions meant that they had to rethink their approach. […]