Fire Over Water: Catherine Tàmmaro at Remote Gallery - Opening Feb 18, 1-4pm

Catherine Tàmmaro . Fire Over Water 

Feb. 18 - Mar. 17. | VIEWINGS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Opening Day: Sat. Feb. 18th 1-4pm

Remote Gallery: 568 Richmond St West, Toronto

Updated on March 3: Fire Over Water: viewings by appointment only. Take the opportunity to sit with the artist to view the work. Available throughout the week. Please call Catherine Tammaro at 647 222 5548 to book an appointment or email catherine.tammaro@gmail.com. Thank you! 

Catherine Taǫmęˀšreˀ Tàmmaro is a multimedia artist and seated Wyandot FaithKeeper. Since 2019, Catherine has been Akin’s Elder Artist In Residence. We’re so excited Elder Catherine’s work will be coming to the Remote Gallery for her installation entitled FIRE OVER WATER. Fire Over Water involves sound, video, paintings, vitrines and more - inspired by Dr. Kathryn Magee Labelle’s book, Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories From Seven Generations, in conjunction with the Wendat Wyandot Women's Advisory Council. 

Focused on Wendat/Wyandot women and their connection to their Ancestors, the land and waters; the Great Mystery and our Kin in the Natural World, Fire Over Water offers insight into Wendat/Wyandot placemaking, placekeeping, our Narratives, Motherwork as well as our precious relationships to each other across time, within the Wendat Confederacy.

Catherine Tàmmaro, Huronia: Sky World View, 2023, Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 30"
Image Description: Abstract painting with undulating shapes in earthtones on canvas.

Catherine embarked on this project ten years ago with Dr. Labelle and the Council. These works are her reflections on this deeply felt spiritual connection through time and space.

Catherine is active throughout the City of Toronto and beyond, in many organisations as Elder in Residence, Mentor, Teacher and Cultural Advisor. She is an alumna of OCA and has had a diverse career, multiple exhibits and installations, published written works and more. She served on the Board of the TAC, TAC’s Income Precarity Working Group and was the Chair of the Toronto Arts Council’s Indigenous Advisory Committee in 2020/21. Catherine is the Indigenous Arts Program Manager at Toronto Arts Council and continues teaching, learning and exploring her creativity and that of others. 

Learn more about Catherine and her projects through her website, twitter, or instagram. You can listen to Catherine’s music project subductionCurrent,  here

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Image Description: Image with five logos. The logos are: Akin, Remote Gallery, Toronto Arts Council, Conservation Halton and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 

This project was supported by the Canada Council of the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, Conservation Halton, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Dr. Labelle, the Wendat/Wyandot Women’s Advisory Council, Akin and the Remote Gallery.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. @CanadaCouncil  #BringingTheArtsToLife

Akin Welcomes Indigenous Elder, Artist in Residence Catherine Tammaro

Akin is thrilled to welcome Wyandot multimedia artist and Tradition Keeper Catherine Tammaro (Taǫmęˀšreˀ) to our organization as our inaugural Indigenous Elder Artist in Residence - a relationship based on communication, creativity, awareness/visibility and relationship building between creative settler and Indigenous folk. This initiative will help Akin work toward maintaining its treaty responsibilities with Indigenous Peoples per the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between allied nations to care for and share the resources in the Great Lakes Region.

Catherine will hold open studio hours to engage with studio members and our larger community, provide creative and spiritual support for Indigenous artists and collaborate with Akin on initiatives prioritizing Indigenous artists and cultural producers. We understand that we have a lot of work to do in better supporting Indigenous folk, and making our spaces safe and enjoyable. This unique residency program is one step that we have worked together on for several months, and while excited, Akin recognizes the work we still have ahead of us.

A special thank you to our friend and advisor Rania El Mugammar whose support has made this program possible.

Please stay tuned for event details as we plan on welcoming Catherine with an evening gathering at Akin King (511 King St West) on February 15th, 2019 from 5:30-8:30PM.

About Catherine Tammaro:

Catherine Tammaro was born in Toronto, and raised in Toronto and the US. She has a 50-year history of art making, including painting, fine art and award-winning design, theatre, soundscape/installation, musical collaboration, photographic/written journalism and extensive digital work/graphic design. Her multi-media works have been exhibited in traditional/alternative gallery spaces and her written works and musical compositions have been published in various online blogs and installations. Catherine has been involved in a wide array of interdisciplinary collaborations, ongoing special projects and themed exhibitions, as originator, curator, performer and exhibitor. She has been working with the academic community of late and is currently involved with several projects such as The Daughters of Aataentsic, The Star Collective, Walking With Our Sisters and others. She is a seated Tradition Keeper for the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation; Speckled Turtle Clan. Catherine is Akin Studio's premiere Indigenous Elder Artist in Residence, and is working with many agencies, city wide and beyond, to advise and facilitate art making/teaching workshops, as well as maintaining her own arts practise regarding spiritual and ever changing realities as they pertain to our connection to the sacred multiverse.  

Call for Submissions →

Program: Ontario Arts Council - Indigenous Artists in Communities and Schools Projects

Deadline: August 29th 2018.

The program supports projects that bring together Ontario-based Indigenous artists or Elders to:

• Work with individuals or groups of people from a community on collaborative activities that create a meaningful arts experience and transmit artistic skills and knowledge;
• Teach arts workshops in schools during the upcoming school year, engaging children and youth in creative, active, hands-on and in-depth arts experiences.

There are five categories:

• Community arts projects: to help cover the costs of participatory activities that promote learning, collaboration and/or engagement in the arts;
• Indigenous languages through the arts: to help cover the costs of artistic and community-engaged projects in which the primary purpose is the transmission of Indigenous languages through the arts;
• Training for community artists and animators: to help cover the costs of Indigenous artists and animators working in community and non-arts settings to seek training and mentorship; opportunities that will strengthen their community arts, arts training or arts education practice;
• Indigenous artists in schools projects: to help cover the costs of activities that promote learning, collaboration and/or engagement in the arts;
• Indigenous artists in northern fly-in communities: supports (a) applicants from fly-in communities working anywhere in Ontario, and (b) applicants from anywhere in Ontario working in fly-in communities.

Note: Applicants may apply to only one category.