2021 Virtual Conference Collective Gallery
CATA-ACAT 2021 Virtual Conference
Emergence: Cultivating Hope, Creating Change
Collective Art Gallery
Much gratitude to the conference participants who have contributed artwork to the gallery!
Poetry:
one child is everyone’s child by Lisa Nackan
Dreamtime by Laura Andrew
Videos:
Emergence Art Re-action by Lucy Lu
Bloom by Kate Leppard
Click on the images below to view the artists’ names and statements (please note that the artwork details can be only viewed on a desktop - it will not work on a mobile device i.e. phone or tablet).
Collective Art Gallery Invitation for Contributions
What is emerging for you in this conference time we are sharing? What do you see? What do you hear? What inspires and is emerging for you?
Through the conference we have invited participants to share images, soundscapes, poetry or prose, which are gathered in a video to be shown at the conference’s closing celebration on Sunday, November 28, 2021.
Submissions for the gallery is now closed and we are working on the video! If you have any questions about the collective art gallery please contact Karen at karen@sustainingwonder.ca.
An apology regarding the original art-making invitation video
Dear participants of the CATA-ACAT 2021 Virtual Conference,
We are reposting an edited version of the video for the collective art-making invitation at this year’s conference. We sincerely apologize, particularly to our Indigenous colleagues, for an error in judgment, as the original video contained the symbol of the Tall Ships, which represents a Doctrine of Discovery that unjustly celebrates the arrival of Europeans on Turtle Island, based on the racist assumption that Europeans have “discovered” land that was unoccupied, and is ongoingly used to justify the violation of Indigenous Peoples’ land and human rights (Assembly of First Nations, 2018).
The CATA-ACAT 2021 Conference Committee acknowledges that the Tall Ships imagery in the video perpetuates this colonial and racist narrative. We sincerely apologize to our Indigenous colleagues for the hurtful effects of our neglect in recognizing the symbolism in the video before sharing it publicly. It goes against everything we are working towards with this conference. We take full responsibility for not catching this error in judgment, and acknowledge that our efforts towards Indigenizing art therapy on Turtle Island include correcting these errors. We are committed to learning and unlearning, and we are grateful for our colleagues who are willing to share the truth with us, as well as kindly sending us the Assembly of First Nation’s Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery document as a resource, as we look inward at our own unconscious biases.
As art therapists and students, using images from magazines and other print and digital sources is a regular practice for us. We therefore urge our settler colleagues to read Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by the Assembly of First Nations, linked below, to learn about and be aware of the ongoing effects of the Doctrine of Discovery in our social worlds, and avoid perpetuating these harmful effects in our practice.
https://www.afn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18-01-22-Dismantling-the-Doctrine-of-Discovery-EN.pdf
Sincerely,
CATA-ACAT 2021 Virtual Conference Committee