Jason Baerg: ᓭᓭᓯᐤ / Sêsêsiw / Yellow Legs

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Jason Baerg, "ᓭᓭᓯᐤ / Sêsêsiw / Yellow Legs," 2019

Be sure not to miss Jason Baerg's artist talk, presented in part by Sâkêwêwak First Nations Artist Collective, and their Annual Storytellers Festival • Sunday, February 3rd, 1 - 2 pm • 

ᓭᓭᓯᐤ / Sêsêsiw / Yellow Legs Sto:lo author Lee Maracle describes Story as an entity and further, that Story finds its Teller. Jason Baerg presents a new body of work that investigates the Story as an entity and the further process of the Story finding its Teller. Baerg creates a space of understanding by drawing on an ancient canon of Indigenous stories to connect to place and ancestors in this new body of paintings and new media projections. Baerg will open himself up to what is said and must be heard through conversations with local Regina Indigenous people, who were welcomed into the space of creation, as the work was in production.

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Jason Baerg: is a registered member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and serves the Indigenous community as a curator, educator, and visual artist. Recent curatorial projects include exhibitions with Toronto's Nuit Blanche and the University of Toronto. Baerg graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts from Rutgers University. He currently is the Interim Chair of Indigenous Visual Cultures at OCAD University. Dedicated to community development, he founded and incorporated the Métis Artist Collective and has served as volunteer Chair for such organizations as the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition. Creatively, as a visual artist, he pushes new boundaries in digital interventions in drawing, painting and new media installation. Recent international solo exhibitions include the Illuminato Festival in Toronto, Canada, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and the Digital Dome at the Institute of the American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jason Baerg has adjudicated numerous art juries and won awards through such facilitators as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council.