The University of Regina's Faculty of Arts is pleased to invite the public to the 2025 annual Stapleford Lecture with guest lecturer Dr. Carmen Robertson, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture at Carleton University. Dr. Robertson will be speaking on the topic, Picturing Land: Indigenous Aesthetics on the Flatland.
A specialist in the art of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau, Dr. Robertson leads a team of researchers through the final stages of an exhaustive study of the first thirty years of his career. The recent publication Bead Talk: Indigenous Aesthetics on the Flatlands in 2024 (UMP), co-edited with Judy Anderson and Katherine Boyer and the co-curated exhibition It Runs in the Family, now on display in an Ottawa gallery that explores familial ties within Indigenous prairie art, sets the stage for this lecture. Dr. Robertson has published monographs, scholarly chapters, and essays related to Indigenous arts and visual cultural issues while also maintaining a curatorial practice.
Calling for new ways of seeing, Carmen Robertson will revisit the intertwined Indigenous art histories of Saskatchewan through a storied lens. An active engagement with stories upends temporality, looking to the past and the future, and shapes our understandings of how Indigenous artists picture the land.
Each year, the Faculty of Arts is pleased to present the annual Stapleford Lecture, funded through the generosity of the Ernest William Stapleford and Maude Bunting Stapleford Lecture Fund. This endowed trust was established by the late Elsie Stapleford, in memory of her parents.
The lecture is open to the public, and we encourage all those interested in interdisciplinary studies, art history, and Indigenous storytelling.
The event will take place on November 6th, 2025 at 7:00PM in CB 139, College Avenue Campus, 2155 College Avenue. Public parking is available behind the College Building and along College Avenue and Wascana Drive - please view this map for details.
Please reserve a free ticket to confirm your attendance.
