Annette de Stecher
Laval University
Quebec
annedes@rogers.com
CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRENT
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science and Humanities Research Council,
Laval University, Quebec.
EDUCATION
PhD, Cultural Mediations, Aboriginal Art History, Carleton University, 2013
MA, Art History, Carleton University, 2006
BA, Art History (Distinction), McGill University, 1980
FELLOWSHIPS
Research Fellowship, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau Quebec,
2010-1011.
AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
Chapters in Peer Reviewed Books
“Huron-Wendat Visual Culture: Source of Economic
Autonomy and Continuity of Traditional Culture,” Canada Exposed/Le
Canada à découvert Canadian Studies/Études canadiennes 20,
International Council for Canadian Studies. New York; Oxford: P.I.E.
Peter Lang, 2009, 131-147.
“Souvenir Art, Collectable Craft, Cultural Heritage: The Wendat of
Wendake Quebec,” in Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and
Politics, 19th-20th Century. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, 2014,
37-57.
Forthcoming Chapters in Peer Reviewed Book
“Negotiating Change: Huron-Wendat Diplomatic Traditions in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century,” Beyond Huronia, Native American Series. Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
Articles, Peer Reviewed Journals
“GRASAC Fieldtrip 2007: British Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum Collections of Great
Lakes Nations Material Culture,” Joint authors, de Stecher, Annette and Stacey
Loyer. Journal of Museum Ethnography 22 (December 2009) 145-154.
“Huron-Wendat Historical Visual Arts Tradition: Symbol of
Cultural Continuity and Autonomy in the Past, Source of Inspiration in the
Present,” St. Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies 13 (2009)
87-94.
“Indigenous Curatorial Practice as Cultural Continuity: Nineteenth-Century Traditions of
Performance and Display and Twenty-First Century Museum Exhibitions,”
Journal of Curatorial Studies 3.1 (2014) 50-73.
Forthcoming Articles: Peer Reviewed Journals
“L’Artisanat Wendat: La continuité de la vision esthétique et de l’identité autochtone,”
Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, 2015.
Book Reviews
Bourque, Bruce. J. and Laureen A. Labar. Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles,
Clothing, and Costume. Augusta; Montreal; Kingston: Maine State Museum.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. Canadian Journal of Native Studies,
2010.
Thompson, Judy. Women’s Work, Women’s Art: Nineteenth Century Northern
Athapaskan Clothing. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization;
Montreal&Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Canadian Journal of
Native Studies 34.1 (2014) 226-229.
Peer Review
Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. Article peer review, 2013.
Other
“Mi’kmaq Spruce Box” in Quebec and Canadian Art. Montreal:
Museum of Fine Arts, 2011, 38
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Home and Territory: Marguerite Vincent La8inonke, Huron-Wendat Artist, Teacher,
and Entrepreneur,” Universities Art Association of Canada, November 2012.
“L’artisanat wendat: la continuité de la vision esthétique et l’identité autochtone, dans
un paysage politique en transformation,” Congrès d’études wendat et
wyandot, Wendake, Québec, juin, 2012.
“Wendat Women’s Arts: Values of Individuality and Community,” Canadian Women
Artists History Initiative Conference, Concordia University, May 2012.
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“A Huron-Wendat ‘Tapestry’: The drama of identity,” Native American Art Studies
Association Conference, Ottawa, Ontario October 2011.
“Souvenir Arts, Collectable Crafts, Cultural Heritage: The Huron-Wendat of
Wendake, Quebec,” Graduate Plenary Session, Material Culture, Craft and
Community Conference, Material Culture Institute, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta May 2011.
“Huron-Wendat Souvenir Arts: Continuity of Aesthetic Vision and Worldview in a
Changing Political Landscape,” Native American Art Studies Association,
Sixteenth Biennial Conference, Norman, Oklahoma October 2009.
“Huron-Wendat Historical Visual Arts Tradition: Symbol of Cultural Continuity and
Autonomy in the Past, Source of Inspiration in the Present,” UAAC
Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 2008.
“Huron-Wendat Visual Culture: Source of Economic Autonomy and Continuity of
Traditional Culture,” International Council of Canadian Studies, Biennial
Conference: Canada Exposed, Ottawa, Ontario May 2008.
“The Huron-Wendat Aesthetic Tradition: Hidden By its Label as Craft,” SSHRC
Symposium, CASCA Annual Meeting, Ottawa Ontario, May 2008.
Forthcoming Conference Paper
“Representation and Community: the Ceremonial Headdress of Caroline Gros-Louis,”
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference 2015, The Artist Herself.
May 2015, Queen’s University, Kingston.
Other Conference Participation
Panel Organizer: “Questioning Authority: Bringing Community Knowledge to the Museum,”
Native North American Art Conference, October 2013, Denver Colorado.
Panel Discussant: “New Understandings, New Collaborations: Visual Experience and Beyond
in the Art Gallery,” Dene Exhibition: Symposium, Carleton University Art Gallery,
September 2007.
Conference Organizer: Interface 2007: Reconciliations. Institute for Comparative Studies in
Literature, Art and Culture, Student Conference 2007.
LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS
“Aboriginal Visual Arts and the Museum, or, Whose Story Is It?” School for Community and
Public Policy, DIALOG program, Concordia University, August 2013.
“Beyond Craft and Art,” Symposium: Art, Craft, None-of-the-Above. Summer Solstice
Aboriginal Arts Festival June 2013.
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“A Rich Heritage: the Arts of Canada’s First Peoples,” West End Learning Group
Lecture Series, Ottawa, January 2013.
“Objects of Luxury and Taste: Wendat Souvenirs Arts in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,”
University of Ottawa, September 2012.
“Wendat Arts: Three Moosehair Embroidered Tapestries,” Lecture Series,
Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Gatineau, Quebec, February 2012.
“Art of this Land: A Critical Eye,” for ARTH 2003 Canadian Twentieth Century and
Contemporary Art, Carleton University, March 2012, July 2011.
“A House that is more than a House: the Home of Marguerite Vincent La8inonkie,”
for the Department of Architecture, Carleton University, January 2011.
“North American Aboriginal Art, an Introduction,” for ARTH 2005, Arts of the First
Peoples, Carleton University, September 2009.
“Iroquoian Visual Arts Traditions,” for ARTH 2005 Arts of the First Peoples, Carleton
University, October 2008.
OTHER SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Awards
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SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Award:
Michael Smith Travel Supplement, 2009/2010
SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Canada
Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral, 2007/1010
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2006/2007
SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Canada
Graduate Scholarship-MA, 2005/2006
Carleton University Scholarship: 2005/2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sessional Instructor, INDG3000 Indigenous Representation in Contemporary Canada, School
for Canadian Studies, Carleton University, 2014.
Sessional Instructor, ARTH 3705B Selected Museum Exhibitions: What Makes
a Great Exhibition of Aboriginal Art?, School for Studies in Art and Culture,
Carleton University, 2011.
Teaching Assistantships
Teaching Assistant, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, 2005-2012
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CURATORIAL AND GALLERY EXPERIENCE
Curator of Inuit Art, Carleton University Art Gallery, January-May 2012. Exhibition: The Past
is Present: Memory and Continuity in the Maree Brooks and Priscilla Tyler
Collection of Inuit Art, June-August 2013.
BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES
2013-
Board of Directors, Ottawa School of Art
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