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Our Indigenous Advisory Council

Keesic Douglas

Artist

Keesic Douglas is an Ojibway artist from Rama First Nation. His practice utilizes photography, video and performance focusing on themes of exploring history, identity, representation, and the environment through an Indigenous perspective. Keesic’s work has been exhibited both across Canada and internationally. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Winnipeg, Toronto and recently the Orillia Museum of Art & History as well as group exhibitions in Budapest, Prague, Mexico, Vancouver, Montreal,Toronto and New York City. In 2009 his video War Pony screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany. His short film The Vanishing Trace won best short documentary at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2007. In the summer of 2014, his work was exhibited as part of Before and After the Horizon: Anishnabek Artists of the Great Lakes at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Keesic graduated with a BFA from OCAD in 2008 where he won the medal for photography and completed his MFA at UBC in Vancouver BC in 2010.

Danielle Big Canoe Snake is a prominent Indigenous librarian, cultural organizer, and community advocate based in Orillia, Ontario. She serves as the Library Coordinator and Children's Library Programmer for the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, where she is highly respected for her work in youth literacy and cultural revitalization. 

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Danielle Big Canoe Snake

Curator / Librarian

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