Robert Morris
In residence September 8 - 18, 2023
Robert Morris is a multi-disciplinary artist currently working with kinetic sculpture. His practice is informed by decades of crafting fabric on frame boats. He has taught traditional arctic qajaq (kayak) building for twenty-five years across North America and in Taiwan, and was invited to Kugaaruk, Nunavut to work with elders, where he learned to build Netsilingmeot qajat. He is the author of Building Skin and Frame Boats. A graduate of University of Concordia, Simon Fraser University, ECUAD, and OCAD, Robert was a founding co-coordinator of Gallery Gachet and has worked at numerous other museums, galleries, and historic sites.