Ursula Johnson is an emerging Mi’kmaq performance and installation artist. She graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and has participated in over 30 group shows and 5 solo exhibitions. Her performances are often place-based and employ cooperative didactic intervention. She has presented publicly in lectures, keynotes and community forums around topics of Indigenous Self-Determination, Renegotiating Conservation in Canadian Institutions, Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability, and Impacts of Economics on The Indigenous Object. Johnson has been selected as a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize and has twice been long listed for the Sobey Art Award.

 The Prep Room – A Cataloguing Party with Ursula Johnson

The Archive Room’ from the Nationally touring solo exhibition ‘Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember)’ by Ursula Johnson is making some new acquisitions; but in order for that to happen there needs to be a community collaborative intervention in the style of a Cataloguing Party!! There will be brief introductions to the process and the project, then you will be invited to participate in a fully interactive museological intervention for the new pieces for the archive!! The Prep Room will be open from 12pm to 6pm, with 3 scheduled introductions to the process: 12:00pm, 2:00pm, 4:00pm.