TTTM Exhibitions
MUSEUM QUEERIES + UNSETTLING AND INDIGENIZING
Love Medicine
June 18 - November 1, 2026
MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St, Regina, SK
CURATOR:
Michelle McGeough
ARTISTS:
To be annouced
Michelle's work on Love Medicine is offered as a love letter to her community, addressing the profound absences of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer lives in archives and galleries.
Love Medicine is produced in collaboration with TTTM Partner, the MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG) with support from key MAG collaborators including Crystal Mowry (Director of Programs), Felicia Gay (Curator), Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway (TD Curatorial Fellow: Indigenous Relations), and Nicolle Nugent (Curator of Education).
Keep an eye out for more updates as the exhibition approaches!
Curatorial Dreaming Workshop
In preparation for the forthcoming Love Medicine exhibition, in June 2024 TTTM members facilitated a two-day Curatorial Dreaming workshop hosted by the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at the University of Winnipeg. The workshop brought experienced and emerging Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer curators from across Canada together to experiment, vision, and dream, including tours of the Two-Spirit Archives and the Urban Shaman Gallery of Contemporary Indigenous Art alongside development work lead by facilitators Adrienne Huard (Affiliate, Museum Queeries and Unsettling & Indigenizing Museology) and Dr. Shelley Butler (Co-Investigator, Critical Race Museology).
Back row L-R: Kylie Fineday, Nadine Arpin, Michelle McGeough, Heather Igloliorte, Crystal Mowry, Shelley Butler, Mel Granley, Grace Redhead.
Front row L-R: Justin Bear, Angela Failler, Mahlet Cuff, Heather Milne, Adrienne Huard, Chantal Fiola. Photos by Jordyn Sheldon.
The Curatorial Dreaming Workshop program was generously sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the University of Winnipeg’s Centre for Research in Cultural Studies, and through Dr. Heather Igloliorte’s Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices.
team members
Michelle McGeough, PhD (Métis/Cree) is originally from Amiskwaciwâskahikan, in the treaty six region of what is currently referred to as Canada. Prior to accepting her current position as an Assistant Professor at Concordia University, she taught at the University of British Columbia. Dr. McGeough received her PhD in Indigenous Art Histories from the University of New Mexico. Her research interests have focused on the Indigenous two-spirit/Indigiqueer identity.
Role: Co-Investigator
Cluster: Museum Queeries
Adrienne Huard (they/them) is an Anishinaabe Two-Spirit curator, writer, Sundancer, performer, and future Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba in the Indigenous Studies department. They are a registered member of Couchiching First Nation in Treaty 3 territory, and currently reside in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Additionally, Huard is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Manitoba, researching Two-Spirit, trans, and queer Indigenous critiques, aesthetics, and visual culture. They are a recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral award, and sit on the Board for 2Spirit Manitoba Inc.
Role: Affiliate
Cluster: Museum Queeries + Unsettling and Indigenizing Museology
Shelley Ruth Butler, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist whose research, teaching, and consulting focus on legacies of colonialism, racism, and apartheid in museums and heritage sites in Canada and South Africa. She is co-editor of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (MQUP 2016) and author of Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa (University of Toronto Press 2011). She offers “Curatorial Dreaming” workshops to museum professionals, academics, and community groups and is a Lecturer with McGill University’s Institute for the Study of Canada.
Role: Co-Investigator + Coordinating Committee
Cluster: Critical Race Museology
Heather Igloliorte, an Inuk-Newfoundlander and Nunatsiavut beneficiary, is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices at the University of Victoria, BC, where she is a Professor in the Visual Arts Department (2023-). Heather formerly held a Tier 1 University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, QC, where she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and co-director of the Indigenous Futures Research Centre with Prof. Jason Edward Lewis. Since 2018 Heather has directed the nation-wide Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq / Pijariuqsarniq Project (2018-2025), a SSHRC-funded partnership grant which supports Inuit postsecondary students to explore professional career paths in all aspects of the arts, including collections management, curatorial practice, arts administration and other areas of the visual and performing arts, in order to address the longstanding absence of Inuit in agential positions within Canadian art history and museum practice.
Role: Co-Investigator + Coordinating Committee
Cluster: Unsettling and Indigenizing Museology
Angela Failler, PhD is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory at U. Winnipeg, where she is also Director of the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies. Her research is focused on how practices of culture and public memory are used to grapple with the ongoing effects of historical violence and injustice. She leads a long-term study on public memory of the 1985 Air India Bombings, and co-leads the Museum Queeries cluster.
Role: Co-Investigator + Coordinating Committee
Cluster: Museum Queeries
Mahlet Cuff is an undergraduate student majoring Women’s and Gender Studies with honours at the University of Winnipeg. They are a part of the Musuem Queeries team, while being a student they have experience as an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, visual media curation, film programming, community organizing and archival research. Cuff’s main interest in research is looking at the history of Black queer life in Manitoba.
Role: Research Assistant Cluster: Museum Queeries