Sherry Farrell Racette (Métis, Algonquian and Irish) is a distinguished interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts and curatorial practice. Her work is grounded in story: stories of people, stories that objects tell, painting stories, telling stories and finding stories, especially those that recover Indigenous women’s knowledge and voices. She has curated major exhibitions, including the National Gallery’s Radical Sitch and the Winnipeg Art Galleries’ Kwaata-nihtaawakihk – a Hard Birth. Farrell Racette’s transformative research and arts practice has been recognized across Canada and beyond. She was the inaugural Indigenous Faculty Scholar at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute, was the 2009-10 Anne Ray Resident scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico and received the 2021 Universities Art Association of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award. Farrell Racette has been an invited speaker across Canada, the US (ex. National Museum of the American Indian, and the Smithsonian), and in Europe (ex. Tate Liverpool, The Courtauld Institute of Art). 

Dr. Farrell Racette is a distinguished alumni from the UM (PhD, 2008) whose research, art, and curation has made an impact on national and international stages. Her breaks down interdisciplinary silos and barriers and lines between universities and communities. She weaves together what are often disparate disciplines; she works to bridge the gap between scholarship, policy, and practice; and she brings together community and arts-based research methodologies in innovative ways. She does all of this while being rooted in notions of reciprocity and responsibility, ensure the collective benefit of research, and that authority to control the research rests with community.

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