Heid E. Erdrich in Conversation with Caitlin Chaisson
Thursday, November 16, 2023
6-8pm
The 8th Floor
17 W 17th Street, NYC
Images courtesy of (left to right) Heid E. Erdrich and Caitlin Chaisson.
Join poet Heid E. Erdrich and curator Caitlin Chaisson for a discussion about the intersections between language, land, and contemporary art in recent exhibitions, including a project curated by Erdrich titled Boundless, for the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College. This program is in conjunction with The House Edge at The 8th Floor, on view the day of the discussion from 11am and partially on view from 5:30pm.
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Heid E. Erdrich is the author of seven poetry collections, including Little Big Bully, a National Poetry Series winner. Erdrich edited the anthology New Poets of Native Nations from Graywolf Press and has received many honors, including the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and a National Artists Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Erdrich is a 2020-2024 guest curator for the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College. She lives in Minnesota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
Caitlin Chaisson (Canada) is a curator and critic based in New York and holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She recently worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (2023) and at The Drawing Center on Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022) and Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart (2022). Previously, she served as the Director and Curator of Far Afield (2016–19), an initiative that supports regionally-connected artistic and curatorial practices. She has also held positions at e-flux (New York City), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), and AKA Artist-Run Centre (Saskatoon). Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, and frieze magazine, among others.
Image description: Two headshots, left to right: a Ojibwe woman in a dark purple turtle neck with long hair silver earrings smiling, and a white woman with auburn hair and blue eyes softly smiling, wearing a light blue denim button-up.