Lucie Lederhendler

Brandon

Lucie Lederhendler is a Montreal-based writer, curator, and artist. is the Artistic Director of the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, a community-engaged, contemporary public art gallery, where she began as curator in 2021. Her research is concerned with the ecosystems of mythologies and the mythologies of ecology. She is a lecturer in art history at Brandon University. The exhibits she produces showcase emerging and community artists and curators, creating connections between the public and a range of disciplines. She has a background in performing arts and a masters in Art Education. She has been published in Canadian Art Teacher magazine and Quebec Heritage magazine, and her environment-based artworks have been included in several shows. Originally from a scenic village in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, her iresearch pursues the question of what role an art practice can have in building mythologies that foster connections with the material and immaterial of the non-human world.