TASATÁWEYAT – INA 400 Final Exhibition

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Final Exhibition (INA 400) of graduating Fine Art student Adam Martin’s artwork is currently on view on the main floor east wing of the FNUniv Regina Campus until the end of Fall 2024. TASATÁWEYAT: Explorations of Indigeneity Through Relationships With Family, Place, and Community is “…centred on identity, cultural perspective, and what makes who we are and who we believe ourselves to be.”

The selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures represent Adam’s perspective on how his life has been shaped by his Kahnyake:haka heritage and growing up at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory (ON), and his connection to family and friends in Saskatchewan. Adam’s body of work is a personal reflection on his journey through a fine art degree, depicting lived experiences and or subjects connected to family, friends, place, and community. The exhibition includes a variety of art techniques, including graphic novel-type drawings of his memories from childhood, portraiture drawings of his daughter and grandmother, the creation of a lacrosse stick, a self-portrait corn husk doll made from corn he grew himself, and paintings that depict his family and love of music and art.

The INA 400 Final Exhibition course is a capstone class for graduating Fine Art students. It provides a glimpse of the myriad techniques, skills, and processes a fine art student develops and experiences throughout their studies. The Final Exhibition is a milestone course acknowledging a fine art student’s commitment to art as a career. Attending the Exhibit Reception held at FNUniv Regina Campus on December 5th, 2024, were Adam’s family, Sheena, Brody, and Judy; his parents, Art and Karen Martin of Six Nations of the Grand River (ON); friends; and members of the art community in Regina, including faculty from First Nations University of Canada and UofR Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance (MAP).