{"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":"2026-05-22T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:19:01","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;211812&#8243;]October 2, 2026, to February 28, 2027<br \/>\nArtist-in-Residence<br \/>\nCarrie Allison<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\">Mus\u00e9e\u202fMcCord Stewart<\/a><br \/>\n690 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC, H3A 1E9<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Artist-in-Residence program, 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.This exhibition will mark an unfolding chapter in Allison\u2019s broader research, offering an intimate look at beadwork as both cultural continuity and creative resurgence.<\/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 citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation.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. Situated in K\u2019jipuktuk since 2010, her practice responds to her maternal n\u00eahi\u00fdaw and M\u00e9tis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting.Old and new technologies are combined to tell stories of the land, continuance, growth, and of healing. The work she makes is rooted in research and pedagogical discourses with the intent to share knowledge and garner understanding for complex histories, concepts, and possible futures.<\/p>\n<p>This Artist-in-Residence program was created in 2012 out of a desire to bring on a new meaning to the McCord Stewart Museum\u2019s collections through the eyes of a contemporary artist. This is a way to rediscover the collections from other perspectives. The program invites artists to take a critical and conceptual look at the collections, reflecting on the connections between their artistic practice and the objects and stories they uncover during their research.<\/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 des arts de Montr\u00e9al, Tourisme Montr\u00e9al, the Collection Desjardins and Creative New Zealand.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;211812&#8243;]October 2, 2026, to February 28, 2027 Artist-in-Residence Carrie Allison Mus\u00e9e\u202fMcCord Stewart 690 Sherbrooke St W, 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