Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
ROAAr hosts artist Myriam Dion. Dion shares about her artistic practice. Handmade, dexterity, craftsmanship, ornamentation and pattern would be the words to best describe her practice. Through her work, she commits to restoring the dignity of traditional manual labor, recovering the essence of the labor it involves and praising artisanal virtuosity. This deep motivation encourages her to push back the material limits of the paper medium. Her most recent projects entail altering, cutting up, and weakening old newspapers, transforming them into stunning works of art.
0:00 - Opening comments - Jacquelyn Sundberg, ROAAr, McGill Library
3:24 - McGill VAC comments and Artist Introduction - Michelle Macleod - McGill Visual Arts Collection
13:34 - Artist Talk - Myriam Dion
41:30 - Q and A discussion
ROAAr hosts artist Myriam Dion. Dion shares about her artistic practice. Handmade, dexterity, craftsmanship, ornamentation and pattern would be the words to best describe her practice. Through her work, she commits to restoring the dignity of traditional manual labor, recovering the essence of the labor it involves and praising artisanal virtuosity. This deep motivation encourages her to push back the material limits of the paper medium. Her most recent projects entail altering, cutting up, and weakening old newspapers, transforming them into stunning works of art.
0:00 - Opening comments - Jacquelyn Sundberg, ROAAr, McGill Library
3:24 - McGill VAC comments and Artist Introduction - Michelle Macleod - McGill Visual Arts Collection
13:34 - Artist Talk - Myriam Dion
41:30 - Q and A discussion
