As part of the Prairie Webinar Series, CARFAC Alberta, CARFAC Saskatchewan and CARFAC Manitoba are pleased to present:
GETTING NOTICED AS AN ARTIST
with Liz Baron & Audie Murray
The Prairie Webinar Series is proud to prioritize the expertise of artists working in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, promoting discussion with our provincial neighbours on various topics while sharing investment in prairie perspectives. The formula is simple: look forward to two 25-minute presentations from two artists speaking to their practice and their experience with a given discussion topic, followed by a 30-minute Q&A period.
LIZ BARON is a senior arts manager, an independent media arts curator and culture connector, located on the homeland of the Metis and Treaty One Territory.
Liz Barron is a Métis curator, arts manager, and cultural leader whose work focuses on contemporary Métis and IndigiQueer art through community-driven, relational, and land-based curatorial practices. She is the Métis Curator for the City of Calgary and Project Lead for Calgary Arts Development’s Bend in the Bow Public Art Festival (2027), a major multi-year initiative along the Bow River celebrating Indigenous and settler relationships to place.
Barron is a member of the Pimootayowin Creators Circle with the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and is currently attending Whiskey University, expanding her multidisciplinary storytelling and creative writing practice. Her cultural client list includes CARFAC National (the Indigenous Protocols podcast and research project, the Manitoba Music Indigenous Mentorship Program (as mentor), the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and numerous Indigenous-led arts and culture organizations across Canada.
Her current curatorial research project, Lines of Connection: Métis and IndigiQueer Art Across Borders, explores contemporary Métis practices through travel, studio visits, and writing, connecting artists and communities across regions and generations.
Barron’s connection to place is the homeland of the Metis. Her mother is from St. Francois Xavier, Manitoba and her father is from St. Francois Xavier/ Pigeon Lake, Manitoba. Her maternal grandparents are from St. Charles, Manitoba (Peltier / Pelletier) and Harperville, Manitoba (Miller). Her paternal grandparents are from St. Francois Xavier (Barron / Chalifoux). The Chalifoux were identified as Cree on the Canadian Census and claimed scrip.
Barron is a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation and a member of the Redboine Local, Winnipeg.
AUDIE MURRAY is a visual artist who works with a multitude of mediums such as sculpture, media, beadwork and drawing. Her practice is informed by the process of making and visiting to explore themes of contemporary culture, embodied experiences and lived dualities. These modes of working assist with the recentering of our collective connection to bodies, ancestral knowledge systems, and relationality. Murray is Métis and Cree from the Lebret and Meadow Lake communities located on Treaty 4 & 6 territories, and is a member of Flying Dust First Nation. She is currently based in Oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan).
Murray holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina, 2017; a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary, 2022. She has exhibited widely, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Centre for Contemporary Arts, UK; and the Hessel Museum of Art, USA. In 2024 she was a long-listed artist for the Sobey Art Award, and in 2025 she was the recipient of the Ohpinamake Award. Murray is represented by Fazakas Gallery, located on the traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory (Vancouver, B.C.).
MODERATORS
Saskia Aarts, Executive Director at CARFAC Alberta
Jera MacPherson, Program & Outreach Director at CARFAC SASK
Webinars are free for CARFAC members across Canada and suggested $25.00 for non-members.