Revisions/ Reversals Panel Presentation

The Union Gallery and The Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre presented a slide presentation and panel discussion with LIZ BARRON, KENT MONKMAN and RYAN RICE at Agnes Etherington Art Centre

LIZ BARRON is the current project director for the National Aboriginal Media Arts Coalition, a region within the Independent Media Arts Alliance. Ms. Barron is also working with the Metis National Heritage Centre as their development consultant. She is the sole proprietor of Raven and Associates Cultural Consulting, and is one of three founding members of Urban Shaman Gallery, located in Winnipeg Manitoba.

KENT MONKMAN is a Toronto-based artist of Cree ancestry whose practice incorporates painting, film/video, performance and installation. His recent work facilitates dialogue about colonial power relations using sexuality as a forum to negotiate power. Monkman has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Indian Art Centre, and was a featured artist in the Montreal Biennal in 2007. He has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, USA, and the UK.

RYAN RICE a Mohawk of Kahnawake, Quebec is an artist, curator and critic. His work has been exhibited in Canada, USA and Europe. Rice worked as museum educator at the Iroquois Indian Museum and interned at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec. He also worked as the Curatorial Assistant and Chief Curator at the Indian Art Centre, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and recently finished a curatorial residency at Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa.