Volunteer Work
Academic and Community Service
2017- Co-Chair: Indigenous Advisory Circle, with Heather Igloliorte. Winnipeg Art Gallery. March 2017 Consultation with GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) curatorial collective for WAG and Inuit Art Centre
2015 - 2016 Draft of a Five-Year Indigenization Vision for Winnipeg Art Gallery
2016 Indigenization Framework for the Winnipeg Art Gallery: Working Document. Prepared by Kerry Swanson with assistance from Julie Nagam.
2016 Organized and Co-facilitated a gathering of Indigenous artists, art administrators, and curators for Winnipeg Art Gallery.
2016 Prepared and presented Indigenization to Winnipeg Art Gallery Board of Directors and staff, and to Manitoba Museum staff with the Truth and Reconciliation and the Manitoba Treaty Commission
2016– Member of Indigenous Advisory Circle, University of Winnipeg
2016–2018 Co-Chair – Indigenization Department Committee, University of Winnipeg, department of History
2016–2018 Riley Fellowship Committee
2016–2017 Department Curriculum Committee, University of Winnipeg, department of history
2015–2017 Selected by Canada Council for the Arts for a tri-nations First Nations Curators Exchange in Australia and VIP guest of Asian Pacific Triennial 8 exhibition, symposium, and events in 2015.
2017 Assisted in Tri-Nation International Indigenous Curators’ Exchange, Canada Report prepared and facilitated by Kerry Swanson.
2015– Member of the Curatorial Committee, Winnipeg Art Gallery
2015– Member of the Works of Art Committee, Winnipeg Art Gallery
2015– Committee Member, Research and Ethics, University of Winnipeg
2015–2016 Member of Indigenous Course Requirement Committee, University of Winnipeg, department of history Committee Member, Visiting Lectures, University of Winnipeg Committee Member, Department Review Committee, University of Winnipeg, department of history
2013–2014 Committee Member, Educational and Employment Equity Committee, OCAD University
2011– 2015 Committee Member, Indigenous Visual Culture Program Committee, OCAD University
2011– 2015 Committee Member, School of Interdisciplinary Studies Curriculum Committee, OCAD University
2010–2013 Committee Member, Equity and Diversity Committee, OCAD University, Assisted in the creation of the Indigenous Visual Culture BFA minor and major.
2009–2011 Committee Member, Aboriginal Visual Culture Steering Committee,OCAD University
Community Outreach and Volunteer Activities
2020 - imagineNATIVE Film and New Media Festival – Board Member
2018 -2020 Canadian Arts Summit – Programing committee
2015 -19 Plug In ICA – Board Member
2017 -19 VideoPool Media Arts Centre – Board Member
2016–17 MAWA – Mentor for two artists for a year and talks/events
2012–2014 FUSE Magazine – Board Member
2009–2012 Aboriginal Curatorial Collective – Board Member and Toronto Committee
2004–2012 Canadian Dimension Magazine – Collective and Editorial Member
2007–2011 League of Tangents, Experiments in Urban Research – Collective Member
2008–2011 Social & Political Thought – Executive Committee and Women’s Caucus
2008–2010 Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Art – Board member
2007–2008 Community Arts Ontario – Committee Member
2006–2007 Intersections Graduate Conference – Communications Director
2005–2007 Manitoba Arts Council – Arts Advisory Board
2005–2006 Thompson Arts Council – Artist and Board Member
2003–2005 Thompson Crisis Centre – Board of Directors
2002–2003 Women’s Studies Outreach Committee Victoria, BC– Outreach work
2001–2002 Iceland’s Research Center for Women – Research