Artist Performance by Ursula Johnson

Visiting artist Ursula Johnson presents a daily endurance performance of shaving, pounding and splitting an ash-wood log to produce a mountain of splints, as traditionally employed in Mi’kmaw basket-making.

Ursula Johnson is an Interdisciplinary Artist from Nova Scotia with Mi’kmaw Ancestry. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design with a BFA and is currently based out of Eskasoni Nation. In 2017, Johnson won the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s biggest contemporary art prize.

Performances begin when the gallery opens each day:
Thursday September 20 and Friday September 21 | Performances begin at 11 am
Saturday September 22 | Performance begins at 12 noon

FREE and open to the public.

This event is presented as part of the artist’s solo exhibition Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember) on view at the McMaster Museum of Art until December 8, 2018. Organized by Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. Curated by Robin Metcalfe