I ❤️ Lunaapahkiing: Vanessa Dion Fletcher Artist Talk 

The Goldfarb Summer Institute presents an Artist Talk by Vanessa Dion Fletcher.

Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Location: The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery
Free Admission
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Taking Milton Glaser’s 1976, I ❤️ NY logo as an example, Vanessa Dion Fletcher will discuss land, language, obscured histories, and ancestral reclamation in Lunaapahkiing and beyond.

Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a Lunáapew and Potawatomi nuro divers artist. Her family is from Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiitt (displaced from Lenapawking) and European settlers. Reflecting on an Indigenous and gendered body with a neurodiverse mind, Dion Fletcher looks for knowledge in materials and techniques. Since 2017, Dion Fletcher has used porcupine quills as a primary medium, creating two-dimensional quillwork pieces and expanding the medium through photography, sculpture and performance. Her most recent exhibition BIG Doll | XWAT Naaniitus is curated by Julie Ray Tucker at Art Windsor Essex. Dion Fletcher teaches community workshops in quillwork, beading, and creative writing. Highlights include the Aanikoobijiganag Beading Symposium 2025, and with the Kinoomaadziwin Education Body. She has been working with classes from grades 1 – 12 in the Toronto District School Board. She is a lecturer in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University.