From Cara Krmpotich & Krista Barclay GRASAC member Krista Barclay has recently joined First Peoples Law as a Historian. The firm works exclusively with Indigenous Peoples to defend their inherent and constitutionally protected title, rights and Treaty rights. Krista will be connected with ...
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GRASAC Member Francesca Herbert-Spence is New Curator at the Gardiner Museum
From The Gardiner Museum The Gardiner Museum has announced the appointment of Franchesca Hebert-Spence as its inaugural Curator of Indigenous Ceramics. Hebert-Spence will oversee the narrative and content development of the Gardiner Museum’s new Indigenous gallery space, part of a full-scale ...
Nia:wen, Miigwetch, Thank You, Merci to Data Stewards and GKS Research Assistants
From Cara Krmpotich GRASAC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform runs thanks to a lot of “behind-the-scenes” work. This past year, three masters students – Natasha Fares, Shamina Vastani and Connor White – have been revising records to better reflect that the items in the GKS are frequently ...
Thank You to Shenella Charles and Welcome to Carlie Manners
From Heidi Bohaker Please join us in thanking Shenella Charles for her tremendous service to GRASAC since 2016, first as Project Director and most recently as Communications Director. We are delighted, however, that Shenella is not going too far away. She is moving on to an amazing new ...
New GRASAC Member: Introducing Franchesca Hebert-Spence
By Franchesca Hebert-Spence My name is Franchesca Hebert-Spence. I am Anishinaabe from Winnipeg and my grandmother Marion Ida Spence was from Sagkeeng, Manitoba. I am a cultural producer with a background in making, curating, research and administration. I had the fortune of beginning academia ...