{"id":90500,"date":"2026-02-14T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/exhibitions\/to-move-across-the-land\/musee-mccord-stewart\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:34:21","slug":"musee-mccord-stewart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/to-move-across-the-land\/musee-mccord-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Mus\u00e9e\u202fMcCord Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;877256&#8243;]September 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027<br \/>\nOpening reception: Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 5:30 pm<br \/>\nArtist-in-Residence<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/askohteskanohwe-carrie-allison\/\"><em>Carrie Allison: ask\u014dht\u0113skanohw\u0113<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nMus\u00e9e\u202fMcCord Stewart<br \/>\n690 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC, H3A 1E9<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Artist-in-Residence program and the 8th edition of the Biennale d\u2019art contemporain autochtone, multidisciplinary artist Carrie Allison is developing a new body of work inspired by floral beadwork traditions from her maternal n\u00eahiyaw and M\u00e9tis homelands. Drawing on her ongoing research in the Museum\u2019s Indigenous Cultures collection, she explores the connections between territory, memory, and material culture. The project examines how beadwork carries stories of place and lineage, while also reflecting on the role museums play in preserving and interpreting these histories. Through a series of pieces that blend traditional techniques, archival inquiry, and contemporary approaches, the artist engages with themes of inheritance, transmission, and the evolving relationships between communities and cultural institutions. The exhibition <em>Carrie Allison: ask\u014dht\u0113skanohw\u0113<\/em>\u200b will mark an unfolding chapter in Allison\u2019s broader research, offering an intimate look at beadwork as both cultural continuity and creative resurgence.Thanks to the Ricci family for their generosity in supporting the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Allison (n\u00eahi\u00fdaw\/M\u00e9tis\/mixed European descent) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in K\u2019jipuktuk, Mi\u2019kma\u2019ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her M\u00e9tis and n\u00eahi\u00fdaw family names are Beaudry, Surprenant, Noskeye, and Payiw; her maternal roots and relations are based in and around maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8, and she is a Manitoba Metis Federation citizen.<\/p>\n<p>She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh (Squamish), St\u00f3:l\u014d and S\u0259l\u0313\u00edlw\u0259ta\u0294\/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam) and Tsawwassen Nations. Allison holds a Master of Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Art History, and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was the 2020 recipient of the Melissa Levin Award from the Textile Museum of Canada, received an Emerging Artist Recognition Award from the Creative Nova Scotia Awards in 2021, and was longlisted for the 2021, 2024 and 2026 Sobey Art Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Artist-in-Residence program invites artists to take a critical and conceptual look at the Museum\u2019s collection, reflecting on the connections between their artistic practice and the objects and stories they uncover during their research.As part of this research-oriented creative activity, artists are encouraged to communicate their own interpretation of the collection and propose new ways of interpreting history in its many forms.<\/p>\n<p>The Biennale d\u2019art contemporain autochtone (BACA) would like to thank its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Quebec, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, the Secr\u00e9tariat aux relations avec les Premi\u00e8res Nations et les Inuit, the Conseil 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