Artist talk and open beading session with Stina Baudin

SAW Nordic Lab's current guest artist, Stina Baudin (Montréal/Detroit), invites members of the Ottawa-Gatineau art community to an artist talk and open beading session at Club SAW.

First-time beaders are welcome to join! Participants are also encouraged to bring works in progress to continue and share during the session. All materials will be provided, and snacks will be available.

SAW staff will be on hand to offer information to emerging Indigenous artists and makers about the ongoing NEXT Emerging Indigenous Makers Program, generously supported by the Ottawa Community Foundation.

Stina Baudin (she/her) is a Haitian-Canadian research-based visual artist currently living and working between Montréal and the Detroit Metro Area. She studied at Concordia University (2012) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (2019). Baudin is a 2025 MFA graduate and Gilbert Foundation Fellow at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan, USA).

Her practice weaves together mixed media—including data, text, archival materials and oral histories—to explore the complex and often contested histories of Black communities. Through intricate textile work and sculpture, she bridges traditional storytelling with empirical data, challenging binaries such as truth and myth. Her work gives form to diverse bodies of knowledge rooted in geographical movement, ritual, ancestry and historical memory.

Baudin is a two-time recipient of the Gilbert Foundation Scholarship (2023–2025) and received the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Materials Award at Cranbrook. She has participated in artist residencies at ZK/U Berlin, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), Pocoapoco (Mexico) and CultureHub (New York). Recent exhibitions include the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Momenta Biennale. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Holon Berlin and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).