Join art historians Carmen Robertson and Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, AGO, for a conversation about the lives and work of two of the 20th century’s greatest painters: Rita Letendre (1928–2021) and Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007).  

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Letendre/Morrisseau 

Carmen Robertson is the Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University. A Scots-Lakota professor of art history, her research centers around contemporary Indigenous arts and constructions of Indigeneity in popular culture. Before joining Carleton, she taught at University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada in Saskatchewan. She currently leads the SSHRC-funded Morrisseau Project: 1955–1985, related to the art of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. In 2016, Robertson published both Norval Morrisseau: Art and Life and Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media. Her essays have been published in such scholarly journals as American Indian Quarterly, the Journal of Canadian Art History, Media History, Canadian Art Review (RACAR), Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, The Ethics Forum and Third Text. Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers, which Robertson co-authored with Mark Cronlund Anderson, has elicited awards and favourable reviews by both scholars and non-academics.