“I am a social statement artist,” Jim Logan shared with the audience that gathered for his talk at L’Imagier exhibition centre in Aylmer, Quebec, last month. During the special evening with the artist, he also shared how he came to this conclusion about his practice along with the painful reasons as to why. Born to a Métis family in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Jim has traversed the country from west to east to central Canada. He spent time as a lay missionary with the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, near Whitehorse, Yukon, and then in Halifax, as the Indigenous curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. He co-founded the Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry (SYANA) and served on the board of the Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry (SCANA). Now based in Ottawa, for over 15 years he was at the Canada Council for the Arts, advocating for Indigenous arts as a visual arts program officer.

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