McMaster Museum of Art cordially invites you to attend:

NIIPA ALUMNI REUNION

Thursday August 25, 9:30AM – 5:30PM

Online via Zoom

The McMaster Museum of Art is opening the NIIPA alumni reunion to the public so that everyone can learn about this ground-breaking Indigenous photography collective and meet some of its members.

This day-long event (9:30am – 5:30pm) will feature panel talks with NIIPA members about the organizations founding, history and legacy, moderated by Rhéanne Chartrand and Paul Seesquasis.

Please register and attend events as desired throughout the day using the single registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8OwUO-vnSVSZaBtBtGxgIA

Schedule of events:

9:30am – 10:00am: Opening Remarks

10:00am – 11:00am: Panel 1: The Founding of NIIPA
Panelists: Yvonne Maracle, Rick Hill, Brenda Mitten, Tim Johnson
Moderated by Paul Seesequasis

11:00am – 11:15am: Break

11:15am – 12:15pm: Panel 2: Building NIIPA’s Network: from Hamilton to all of Turtle Island
Panelists: Jolene Rickard, Martin Loft, Bert Crowfoot, Carol Hill
Moderated by Rhéanne Chartrand

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Break/Lunch

1:15pm – 2:15pm: Panel 3: US Membership
Panelists: Pena Bonita, Avu Dahl (Bernice Morrison)
Moderated by Paul Seesequasis

2:15pm – 2:30pm: Break

2:30pm – 3:30pm: Panel 4: Shifting Photographic Practices
Panelists: Rosalie Favell, Greg Staats
Moderated by Rhéanne Chartrand

3:30pm – 3:45pm: Break

3:45pm – 4:45pm: Panel 5: NIIPA’s Video Department and New Media Explorations
Panelists: Shawn Henry, Steven Loft
Moderated by Paul Seesequasis

4:45 – 5:15pm: Closing Remarks

NIIPA 20/20

May 31 – September 2, 2022

Curated by Rhéanne Chartrand

NIIPA 20/20 presents over 150 photographic works by fifty alumni photographers of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association (NIIPA).

Created between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, and sourced from NIIPA’s permanent collection and past exhibitions, the photographs in NIIPA 20/20visualize the diverse interests and concerns of the alumni photographers and promote a positive, realistic, and contemporary image of Indigenous life on Turtle Island.

NIIPA 20/20 celebrates the individual and collective artistic achievements of the alumni photographers, and the dedicated staff that supported the presentation of their photographic works over the span of NIIPA’s 20-year history.

This exhibition is the culmination of a five-year archival research project shining light on the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association, an Indigenous arts service organization founded in Hamilton in 1985, which played a critical role in advocating for, supporting, and building up a community of emerging and established Indigenous photographers in Canada and the United States.