Joi T. Arcand

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Here on Future Earth: Northern Pawn, South Vietnam, 2009, photographic print, 22.75 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan, (Treaty 6 Territory) and is currently based in Ottawa. Her early work in photography and digital collage images was informed by her interest in graphic and typographic arts. Arcand’s practice imagined what an Indigenized public space could be by rendering streetscapes and communities with typographic inclusions of nehiyawēwin, or Plains Cree (Y dialect) language. Her work has evolved to placing site-specific neon signage in Cree syllabics throughout the interiors and exteriors of buildings, expressing phrases which provide hope and encouragement for Indigenous peoples.

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Here on Future Earth: Northern Pawn, South Vietnam, 2009, photographic print, 22.75 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan, (Treaty 6 Territory) and is currently based in Ottawa. Her early work in photography and digital collage images was informed by her interest in graphic and typographic arts. Arcand’s practice imagined what an Indigenized public space could be by rendering streetscapes and communities with typographic inclusions of nehiyawēwin, or Plains Cree (Y dialect) language. Her work has evolved to placing site-specific neon signage in Cree syllabics throughout the interiors and exteriors of buildings, expressing phrases which provide hope and encouragement for Indigenous peoples.

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