The Visiting Mentor program is an advanced mentorship opportunity for mid-career and established professional artists to connect with an artist, curator, or art critic. Each spring, a mentor travels to Saskatchewan to provide private studio visits and/or critiques to support and strengthen the participants' practices. This program is free to CARFAC members and $45 to non-members.

OUR 2022 VISITING MENTOR IS WALLY DION!

Wally Dion, b.1976 Saskatoon Saskatchewan, is a visual artist living and working in Binghamton, New York. A member of Yellow Quill First Nation (Saulteaux), Dion holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout much of his career, Dion’s work has contributed to a broad conversation in the art world about identity and power, and can be interpreted as part of a much larger pan-American struggle by Indigenous peoples to be recognized: culturally, economically, and politically, by settler societies.