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BIOGRAPHIES
JOSH K. WINKLER is a Minnesota artist working primarily with traditional and contemporary print media. Since
receiving his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2010, Josh has been creating works on paper, running
a small gallery, building a stone cabin, and exhibiting work nationally and internationally. He is currently an
Associate Professor of Printmaking at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota. Winkler’s work stems
from an interest in how humans manipulate and label the land. How time, politics, and social change alter the
context of both natural and inhabited locations. By combining personal experience with historical investigation,
Winkler builds layered landscape narratives to reflect on an uncomfortable disconnect between contemporary
Americans and the history of the land. He utilizes a range of drawing, printmaking, and sculptural processes to
facilitate these ideas.
www.joshkwinkler.com
LINDSAY DOBBIN is a Mohawk – Acadian – Irish artist, musician, curator and educator who lives and works on
the Bay of Fundy in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the L’nu. Born in and belonging to the
Kennebecasis River Valley in New Brunswick, Dobbin has lived throughout the Maritimes as well as the Yukon
Territory. Dobbin’s place-responsive practice includes music, media art, performance, sculpture, installation, social
practices and writing, and is invested in and influenced by Indigenous epistemologies and cultural practices, such
as drumming. Through placing listening, collaboration and improvisation at the centre of the creative process,
Dobbin’s practice explores the connection between the environment and the body, and engages in a sensorial
intimacy with the living land.
www.lindsaydobbin.com
MICHAEL MCCORMACK is an intermedia artist, curator, and educator of settler ancestry living in unceded territory
of the Mi’Kmaq people in K’jiputuk (Halifax). He has worked extensively within the artist-run centre community
as Director of Eyelevel Gallery from 2009-2013 and president and representative of the Association of Artist-Run
Centres from the Atlantic from 2011-2013. He continues to work as an independent curator for exhibitions, festivals
and events, most recently for Nocturne: Art at Night (2016), Flotilla Atlantic (2017), INTERPL/\Y (2017), and KIAC’s
the Natural & the Manufactured exhibition (2018). Michael completed his MFA at NSCAD University in 2015 and has
been steadily exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions in public galleries, festivals, and artist-run centres since 2003
and is currently a member of Last Chants Studio, At The Reception and Hermes Gallery in Halifax, NS.
www.michaeldmccormack.com
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