Artist's Talk with Dr. Lisa Boivin

Image-based Storytelling: Painting the Path of Indigenous Resilience

Dr. Lisa Boivin invokes the Indigenous tradition of image-based storytelling to disseminate intergenerational knowledge. For thousands of years, images were used to share tradition, law and ceremony. Visual communication continues to play an important role in Indigenous cultures. Lisa utilizes this artistic medium to understand and assert Indigenous worldviews, which promotes individual and community learning. Lisa reflects upon her personal experience of cultural displacement by confronting the Indian Residential School System, and the Sixties Scoop. She shares her story of healing through cultural reclamation in images she has painted.

Will take place at Women's College Hospital, located in the auditorium.

Dr. Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation in Denendeh (Northwest Territories). She is the Indigenous Educator at University Health Network and The Center for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health’s (Ganawishkadawe) at Women’s College Hospital in Tkaronto (Toronto). She creates arts-based curricula for healthcare researchers and providers, using participatory image-based workshops to educate about the colonial barriers Indigenous patients navigate in the current healthcare system. Lisa has researched and developed educational materials for multiple Senators, CIHR Scientific Directors, hospitals and academic institutions. She is an award-winning author and illustrator of We Dream Medicine Dreams, and I Will See you Again. These two books educate young readers about the power of land-based wellness and healing. Lisa has also authored and illustrated chapters in several medical, arts humanities textbooks. She strives to humanize clinical medicine as she situates her art in the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images