Talks

Art in the Spotlight: Tanya Talaga

Writer and Journalist Tanya Talaga sitting on a white-painted porch in a white wicker chair

Image courtesy of Tanya Talaga

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Art in the Spotlight: Tanya Talaga

Friday June 5, 4 pm
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Art in the Spotlight: Tanya Talaga

Every week we look at works in the collection that speak to the times, from themes of staying at home to how we will re-emerge into our community.

This week Devyani Saltzman, Director of Public Programs, and Wanda Nanibush, Curator, Indigenous Art, are joined by writer and journalist Tanya Talaga as they discuss her favourite Rebecca Belmore work from the AGO's exhibition, Facing the Monumental.

Tanya Talaga is a former reporter and Indigenous Issues Columnist for the Star. She is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities Read Award: Young Adult/Adult; a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism and has been part of two teams that have won National Newspaper Awards for Project of the Year. Tanya founded and runs Makwa Creative Inc., an Indigenous production company.

‌‌‌Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian writer and curator with a deep interest in relevant, multidisciplinary, programming at the intersection between art, ideas and social change. She is the Director of Public Programming at the AGO, and the former Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre, the first woman and first woman of colour in that role, as well as a Founding Curator of Luminato, North America's largest multi arts festival. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Atlantic and Tehelka, India's weekly of arts and investigative journalism. She sits on the boards of the Writers’ Trust of Canada and SummerWorks Performance Festival, and has been a juror for the National Magazine Awards, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Saltzman has a degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Oxford. 

Wanda Nanibush held various curatorial and academic roles across Canada since 2001, prior to joining the AGO in 2016. In addition to independent curation, Nanibush held the post of Aboriginal Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council, Executive Director of ANDPVA and strategic planning for CCA. She holds a Master’s Degree in visual studies from the University of Toronto, where she has also taught graduate courses. Nanibush has published widely in magazines, books and journals. As co-lead of the AGO’s department of Indigenous and Canadian art, Nanibush’s area of specialty is Indigenous Art and collection diversification.

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