Showcasing Artist Jaime Black-Morsette
Showcasing Artist Jaime Black-Morsette
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist and activist, with family scrip signed in the community of St. Andrews, Manitoba. Jaime lives and works on her home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Founder of the REDress Project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over a decade. Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary practice includes immersive film and video, instillation art, photography, and performance art practices. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, place, and resistance.