Image-based storytelling: Collaging a Visual Narrative of the Self
Speaker: Lisa Boivin
Abstract
As we navigate our professional lives we are sometimes separated from our authentic voice. We participate in a way that is informed by the institutions where we are retained. As such, our identity is muted through professional constraints.
Join Dene artist Lisa Boivin for a visually interactive workshop. Lisa will explain how creating images to define the self is healing and transforms the working experience. Make meaning out of life’s tasks by designing a visual narrative of the self.
Lisa utilizes the Indigenous tradition of image-based storytelling as a learning strategy to encourage participants to be reflective of their identity. She will open this workshop with a visual narrative by extracting Indigenous experience and perspectives from images she has collaged. Lisa then invites workshop participants to collage themselves. Participants will then be given time to create and share their visual narratives of the self in the form of image-based storytelling.
• All supplies will be provided.
• Absolutely no art experience is needed.
• Gifts will be provided for all participants.
• Those who choose to share will have first selection.
Biography
Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation. She is an interdisciplinary artist and a doctoral candidate at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Lisa uses images as a pedagogical tool to bridge gaps between medical ethics and aspects of Indigenous cultures and worldviews. She authored I Will See You Again and We Dream Medicine Dreams (Portage & Main Press) which won the 2022 Periodical Marketers of Canada Indigenous Literature Award. Lisa strives to humanize clinical medicine and healthcare as she situates her art in the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images.