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March 11, 2026
Stitching Histories: A Scholar-Artist in Archives and Museums
In collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) is hosting Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette for a lecture titled ‘Stitching Histories: A Scholar-Artist in Archives and Museums’.
The lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm in 108 St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba – Fort Garry Campus. For information on getting to the University of Manitoba, see: https://umanitoba.ca/about-um/our-campuses/getting-here
This is a free event. No registration is required.
This seminar is a part of our annual Critical Conversations seminar series. This year, the seminar series will focus on feminist research methodologies.
About the Lecture
Constructing Indigenous art histories bears a remarkable similarity to beadwork and other stitch-based artforms. Many Indigenous belongings in museum collections have lost their stories. Building object-biographies and larger aesthetic histories relies on reading the living object and following the faint traces in provenance records. A surgeon, old letters, a Cree woman, an 18th century coat, and a smallpox epidemic. An 1851 newspaper article, three journals, and painted and beaded coats in different museums. It is non-linear, multi-disciplinary, painstaking – and fun. One stitch at a time.
About the Speakers
Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active artistic and curatorial practice. She was born in Manitoba and is a member of Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec. Her work as a cultural historian is grounded in extensive work in archives and museum collections with an emphasis on Indigenous women and recovering aesthetic knowledge. Beadwork and stitch-based work is important to her artistic practice, creative research, and pedagogy.
