Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little Indigenous artist/observer/community-connector

Indigenous/Settler Mentors Lita Fontaine (Lakota/Anishinaabe/Métis) 2013-ongoing ​ ​ Leah Fontaine (Lakota/Anishinaabe/Métis) 2013-ongoing ​ ​ Gloria Beckman (Cree) 2014-ongoing Jenny Western (Oneida/Stockbridge-Munsee/European) 2009-ongoing Jaimie Isaac (Anishinaabe/European) 2009-ongoing Liz Barron (Métis) 2010-2011 ​ ​ Amy Karlinsky (Jewish/settler) 2009-2010 KC Adams (Métis) 2009-ongoing ​ ​ Nadia Myre, Montreal (Algonquin) 2008-2009

Bio Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little is a mother, softball coach, artist/observer/community-connector, arts administrator, and a founding member of The Ephemerals. She is of Anishininew (Oji-Cree) / English ​ ​ descent from Kistiganwacheeng (Garden Hill, FN), based in Win-nipi (Winnipeg, MB). Her interests lay in artistic and curatorial strategies that investigate cultural consumerism, Indigenous womxn and community-based initiatives and Indigenous economies. Little recently stepped down as the Director for the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition. As Director, Little organised Listen, Witness, Transmit, a ​ ​ ​ ​ national Indigenous media arts gathering in Saskatoon, SK (June 12-15, 2018) that included roundtables, performances, screenings, and exhibitions. As an independent community connector, Little co-curated níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, the La Biennale d’Art Contemporain Autochtone 2018 ​ (BACA) in Montréal and surrounding areas (May 03-June 19, 2018) and co-hosted Migration a three week ​ ​ ​ ​ on the land residency with Becca Taylor in Demmitt, AB grounded in exploration around Indigenous economies and research as ceremony (August 13-31, 2018).

Professional Arts & Cultural Experience 13.05.2019-current Artistic Director, imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Centre, Toronto, ON 06.12-15.2019 Panelist, Cold Waters, Media Arts Network of Ontario conference, North Bay, ​ ​ ON 04.2019 Instructor, Indigenous Media Arts Initiative, Video Pool in partnership with Fort ​ ​ ​ Richmond Collegiate, Winnipeg, MB ​ 07-14.03.2019 Attendee, TO MAKE WRONG / RIGHT / NOW Honolulu Biennial 2019, Honolulu ​ ​ Hawaiʻi 16.10-06.11.2018 Participant, Curating on the Web: Exhibiting Internet-based Art, online course, ​ ​ Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany 03.01-30.06.2018 Curatorial Residency, BACA, Co-Connector with Becca Taylor, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Montréal, QC ​ ​ 10.2016-30.10.2017 Director, National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition, Canada ​ ​ 09.2016-02.2017 VUCAVU Contractor, Coalition of Canadian Independent Media Art Distributors, ​ ​ Canada 08.2015-02.2016 Indigenous-Curator-in-Residence, aceartinc & Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, aceartinc, Winnipeg, MB ​ 03.2015-09.2016 Distribution Coordinator, Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ 04.2013-03.2014 Cultural Program Coordinator, Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ 02.2010-06.2011 Art Program Coordinator & Facilitator, North End Arts Centre, Cultural Capital of ​ ​ Canada 2010, Winnipeg, MB 12.2009-02.2010 Interim Director, Urban Shaman Inc, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ 02-2009-12.2009 Outreach Coordinator, Urban Shaman Inc, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ 08.2008-02-2009 Research/Studio Assistant, Nadia Myre Studios, Saint-Andre d’Argenteuil, QC ​ ​ 01.2007-06.2008 Aboriginal Administrative Practicum, Visual Arts Department, The Banff Centre ​ for the Arts, Banff, AB ​

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Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little Indigenous artist/observer/community-connector

Community Connector (Curatorial) 01-31.09.2019 Indigenous Language Project, Co-Connector with Tiffany Creyke, Synonym Art ​ Consultation Gallery, Winnipeg, MB (funding pending) 04.30.2019 TBD, Group Exhibition, Connector, the National Inquiry into Missing and ​ Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Winnipeg, MB 02.09.2019 In Tune, Group Exhibition, Connector, Struts & Faucet, Sackville, NB ​ Artists: Scott Benesiinaabandan | Asinnajaq | Kite (funding pending) 08.13-31.2018 Migration, Group Residency, Co-Connector with Becca Taylor, Common ​ Opulence, Demmitt, AB 06.12-06.15.2018 listen, witness, transmit, Director, National Indigenous Media Arts Gathering, ​ Saskatoon, SK 03.05-23.06.2018 níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, Co-Connector with Becca ​ Taylor, The Contemporary Indigenous Art Biennial 2018/La Biennale d’Art Contemporain Autochtone 2018 (BACA), Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Art Mûr Gallery, la Guilde, McCord Museum, Montreal QC, and Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke, QC 29.09-30.09.2017 place no place, Group Exhibition, Connector, Wall-to-Wall Festival, Synonym Art ​ Consultation, Winnipeg, MB Artists: Scott Benesiinaabandan | Katherine Boyer | Kite 27.01-11.02.2017 MELT, Group Exhibition, Connector, Warming Huts Festival, The Forks in ​ partnership with Sputnik Architecture, Winnipeg, MB Artists: Divya Mehra | Dominique Rey | Kelsey Braun | Kenneth Lavallee 30.09-01.2017 L | Māmāow | Community, Group Exhibition, Connector, The Edge Gallery, ​ Wall-to-Wall Festival, Synonym Art Consultation, Winnipeg, MB Artists: Jaime Black | Lita Fontaine | Jackie Traverse | Katherena Vermette 01.08-02.13.2016 enendaman | anminigook (intention | worth), Group Exhibition, Connector, ​ aceartinc., Winnipeg, MB Artists: Kenneth Lavallee | Amy Malbeuf | Jeneen Frei Njootli | Wendy Red Star 22.03.2014 Walking Beyond, Youth Action, Walking With Our Sisters, Co-Connector with ​ ​ ​ Becca Taylor, Urban Shaman, Graffiti Gallery, Winnipeg, MB 03.2011 Painting with Alex and Joseph, Connector, Multi-generational Painting ​ Gathering, North End Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB Artists: Alex Janvier | Joseph Sanchez | Lita Fontaine | Darryl Nepinak | Jackie Traverse | Louis Ogemah

Professional Artistic Experience 19.01.2019 Mothering Spaces | Symposium, Mothers to the Community Panel, Panelist, ​ John & Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB 11.10.2018 níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | ma sœur | my sister panel, Co-Presenter with Becca ​ Taylor, 2018 ACC Gathering, Halifax, NS 21.06-01.07.2018 ISEA 2020 Indigital, Co-Presenter with Dr Julie Nagam, 2018ISEA Durban, ​ South Africa 10.2018 Travel Grant, Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON (ISEA2020) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 08.2018 Travel Grant, Recipient, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB (ISEA2020) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 07.06.2018 RBC On the Rise, Award Recipient, Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB ​ 27.05.2018 níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, Curatorial Tour, La Guilde, ​ Montréal, QC ​ 22.05.2018 Discussion: Résistances et présence autochtones, Panelist, Refus Contraire, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, QC ​ ​ ​ 22.04.2018 Native Women in Contemporary Art, Panelist, Papier, Montréal, QC ​ ​ ​ 17.02.2018 Survived Canada 150: Our Will Is Stronger Than Your Weapons, Panelist, Power ​ of the Arts, National Forum, Montréal, QC ​ ​ 14-19.01.2018 Southwest Rapid Transit Public Art Project, Juror, Winnipeg Arts Council, [email protected] | 204.296.4634 ​ Win-nipi (Winnipeg, MB) 1 May 2019

Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little Indigenous artist/observer/community-connector

Winnipeg, MB 30.11.2017 the future imaginary, Moderator, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB ​ 2017 Artist in the School Program, Advisory Committee Member, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB 17.07.2017-05.08.2017 Wendy Book Club, Co-Faculty with Walter Scott, Plug In ICA Summer Residency ​ 2017, Winnipeg, MB 11.06-18.06.2017 ISEA 2020 Indigital, Co-Presenter with Emma Hendrix, 2017ISEA Manizales, ​ Colombia 06.05.2017 Indigenous Perspectives on Canada150: Risk and Reconciliation, Panelist, ​ Spur Festival, Winnipeg, MB 27.04.2017 Collectives, Panelist, Images Festival, Toronto, ON ​ 09.02.2017 Project Grants to Media Arts Organizations, Groups, and Collectives and Grants to Media Arts Organizations: Initiatives, Juror, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON 26.01.2017 10x20x20, Presenter, Architecture Committee, University of Manitoba ​ Architecture Association of Architecture Students, Winnipeg, MB 11.12.2016 Foundation Mentorship Program, Guest Presenter, Mentoring Artists For Women’s Art, Winnipeg, MB 12.2016 Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Guest Mentor, Winnipeg, MB 10.05.2016 Indigenous Public Art: Air Canada Park, Juror, Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB 05.2016 Individual Arts Grant, Juror, Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB 05.06-07.2016 Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery - 20th Anniversary Symposium, Moderator, Urban Shaman Inc, Winnipeg, MB ​ 05.06-07.2016 Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery - 20th Anniversary Symposium, Panel Presenter, Urban Shaman Inc, Winnipeg, MB ​ 02.24-27.2016 Indigenous Artists Symposium: Activism & Education Through Arts, Panelist, ​ First Nation University, Regina, SK 01-06.2016 Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Youth Mentor, Winnipeg, MB 11.24.2015 Aboriginal Arts Grant, Juror, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB 09.17-18.2015 aceartinc. Submissions, Juror, aceartinc., Winnipeg, MB

Personal Artistic 03.29019 Indigenous 360 - Create grant Carry, Recipient, Manitoba Arts Council, ​ ​ ​ Winnipeg, MB 30.01.2019 Small-Scale Activities Carry, Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON ​ ​ ​ ​ 11.16.2018 Hot title, Public Art Commission curated by Jenny Western, University of ​ Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Artists: Ian August | Jaimie Isaac | Niki Little 05.11-07.12.2018 The Space Between Us: Technology, collaboration, and the future Residency, ​ Participant, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB 01.03-24.04.2018 Recover All That Is Ours, pihtonikewin, Group Exhibition curated by Shannon ​ ​ ​ Webb-Campbell, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC Artists: Lindsay Dobbin | Meryl McMaster | Meagan Musseau| Becca Taylor | Niki & Breanna Little. Featuring poems by Gwen Benaway | Janet Rogers 07.11.2017 Shards, Panellist, Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, MB ​ 09.2017 Shards, Group Exhibition, artist Manitoba Craft Council, Gallery 1C03, University ​ of Winnipeg, MB Travel Grant, Recipient, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Travel Grant, Recipient, Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 04.7-21.2017 ECHOLALIAS, Group Exhibition curated by Areum Kim, Stride Gallery, Calgary, ​ AB Artists: Tamara Lee-Ann Cardinal | Jessie Fraser | Breanna Little | Niki little | Becca Taylor | Anna Semenoff [email protected] | 204.296.4634 ​ Win-nipi (Winnipeg, MB) 1 May 2019

Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little Indigenous artist/observer/community-connector

11.29.2016 Indigenous Arts Creative Development Grant, Recipient, Manitoba Arts Council, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Winnipeg, MB 10.19-23.2016 pihtonikewin, Artist Talk, ‘A Handmade Assembly’, Owens Art Gallery and ​ Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, Sackville, NB 08.03-20.2016 Unwoven, New Artists in Media Arts Grant Recipient Exhibition, Group ​ Exhibition, Platform Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB 02.14.2016 Lucy, Artist-in-Residence, Tallest Poppy, Wall-to-Wall Festival, Synonym Art ​ Consultation, Winnipeg, MB 08.2015 New Artists in Media Arts Grant Recipient, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB

The Ephemerals 20.01.2019 Indigenous Birthing, curated by Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, Betty ​ Andrews Hall, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB 18.01-30.02.2019 Mothering Spaces, Curated by Becca Taylor, Group Exhibition John & Maggie ​ Mitchell Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB 09.2018 The Ephemerals: Outpost, The Ephemerals Exhibition, Urban Shaman, ​ Winnipeg, MB 19.05.2018 The Collective: Indigenous Womxn lead collectives and initiatives, panellist, ​ níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, McCord Museum, Montréal, ​ ​ ​ QC 28.11.2017 Isolated Landscapes, Performance, Video Pool, Winnipeg, MB ​ 30.09-31.12.2017 Entering the Landscape, Group Exhibition, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB ​ 19.04.2017 2017 Sobey Art Award, Prairie and the North, Longlist Nominee, Canada 09.02.2017 Moving Images, ‘women’s pictures, women’s lives panel’, Panelist, ​ Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, MB 12.01-18.02.2017 Moving Images, Group Exhibition, Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, MB ​ 20.12.2016 Trio, The Ephemerals Collective, Parameter Press, Winnipeg, MB ​ 11.03-05.2016 Maiden Indian, The Winnipeg Effect: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?, ​ ​ ​ The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (CCCA), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB 09.5-11.17.2014 Re: Trending, The Ephemerals Exhibition, First Nations University Gallery, ​ Regina, SK 09.5.2014 Re:Trending: The Ephemerals, Artist talk, Arts for Lunch, University of ​ Regina, SK 09.5.2014 ‘A Woman is not an Island’, Indian Maiden, The Ephemerals Collective, ​ ​ Experimental Film Screening, Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg, MB. 08.24.2014 Artist talk, Indian Market, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 08.10-24.2014 Social Engagement Residency 2014, The Ephemerals Collective, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 07.02-27.2014 Plug-In ICA Summer Residency 2014, The Ephemerals Collective, Winnipeg, MB 04.26.2014 Indigenizing the Campus Through Art: Past and Future Perspectives panel talk performance, University of Manitoba with The Ephemerals 09.30.2011 Trending, Artist Roundtable, The Ephemerals, University of Winnipeg, MB ​ 09.06-12.03-2011 The Ephemerals: Trending, The Ephemerals Exhibition, Gallery 1C03, University ​ Of Winnipeg, MB 2011 Maiden Indian, The Ephemerals Collective Experimental Film ​

Publication 01.2019 To Gather in Nourishment, co-writer with Becca Taylor, Femmes et Violence de ​ ​ Mass, Spirale - Hors-série No 2, ISBN: 978-2-89518-640-3 ​ 05.05.2018 níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, Co-curator with Becca Taylor, ​ [email protected] | 204.296.4634 ​ Win-nipi (Winnipeg, MB) 1 May 2019

Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little Indigenous artist/observer/community-connector

The Contemporary Indigenous Art Biennial 2018/La Biennale d’Art Contemporain Autochtone 2018 (BACA), Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Art Mûr Gallery, la Guilde, McCord Museum, Montréal QC, and Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, ​ ​ Sherbrooke, QC. 2018 11.2016 Contemporary Art Writing, Paperwait Volume 18, aceartinc. 2015-16 ​ ISSN: 1497-8776

Media 09.06.2018 Who Benefits from the Indigenous Art Biennial?, by Lindsay Nixon, Canadian Art ​ Fall.2018 Contemporary Native Art Biennial, by Cigdem Talu, Inuit Art Quarterly ​ Fall.2018 Contemporary Native Art Biennial, by Lori Beavis, PhD, First American Art ​ Article. Issue No. 20 07.19.2018 A Biennial Spotlights the Bonds Between Women, by Eunice Bélidor, ​ Hyperallergic 07.2018 QUATRIÈME BIENNALE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN AUTOCHTONE, La langue de l'intime, by Claire Caland, Vie Des Arts ​ 06.04.2018 LA BIENNALE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN AUTOCHTONE (BACA): LE TRAVAIL DES FEMMES* AUTOCHTONES MIS EN VALEUR, by Maude ​ Darsigny-Trépanier, Revue Ex 05.25.2018 The 4th Biennale of Contemporary Aboriginal Art dedicated to women, Maude ​ Darsigny-Trépanier, CBC Radio Canada 05.27.2018 A timely theme and gripping work makes the Contemporary Native Art Biennial a Must-see, by Molly Zapp, CULT Montréal ​ ​ 05.17.2018 BIENNALE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN AUTOCHTONE UN ÉVÉNEMENT 100% FÉMININ, by ÉRIC CLÉMENT, LA PRESSE ​ 05.03.2018 Strength and sisterhood on display in Quebec Indigenous art Biennial, by Elysha ​ Enos, CBC 05.10.2017 CRITIPEG: SHARDS, by Anastasia Chipelski, The Uniter, Culture ​ 19.04.2017 25 Artists Longlisted for 50k Sobey Art Award, by Canadian Art ​ 29.12.2016 Secrets, skating and sharing, Top exhibitions of 2016 made an emotional mark, ​ by Steven Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, The Arts 09.12.2016 Art in 2016: A View from Winnipeg by Alexis Kinloch, Canadian Art ​ 11.08.2016 Bobbing and weaving, Grant recipients make exciting new connections in Video ​ Pool showcase by Steven Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, The Arts 06.2016 enendaman | anminigook by Jenny Western, Border Crossings Magazine ​ Issue 138 - Art + Architecture 14.01.2016 Family Ties, Connections bind pieces together in indigenous curatorial exhibition ​ by Steven Leyden Cochrane, Winnipeg Free Press, The Arts 11.2015 Creating the Perpetual, Artist Niki Little leads aceartinc’s first ever ​ Indigenous residency program by Jill Groening, Muddy Water Magazine ​

Affiliations 10.2016-current Committee Member, Art Advisory Committee, Art Advisory Committee Sport, Culture and Heritage (Arts Branch) 09.2016-10.2018 Board Member, Board of Directors, Independent Media Arts Alliance 07.2016-current Board Member, Board of Directors, Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot School Inc. 07.2016-current Committee Member, Public Arts Committee, Winnipeg Arts Council 11.2016-12.2017 Board Member, Board of Directors, Mentoring Art for Women’s Art 12.2010-07.2016 Treasurer (2015), Board of Directors, National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition 2010–current Co-Founder, The Ephemerals collective ​ ​ 03.2010-09.2015 Vice President (2014), Board of Directors, Urban Shaman Inc. 06.2010-05.05.2015 President (2014), Board of Directors, Independent Media Arts Alliance [email protected] | 204.296.4634 ​ Win-nipi (Winnipeg, MB) 1 May 2019

Wabiska Maengun | Niki Little Indigenous artist/observer/community-connector

Education 2009 - 2010 Mentee, Foundation Mentorship Program, Mentoring Artists For Women’s Art, ​ ​ Winnipeg, MB 2006-2008 Aboriginal Administrative Workstudy, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB ​ ​ 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ 2006 New Voice Program, National Screen Institute, Winnipeg, MB ​ ​ 2001 Diploma in Foundation of Fine Arts, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK ​ ​

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