Taqralik Partridge: The 2024 Eastern Comma Artist-in-Residence

Musagetes is pleased to announce Taqralik Partridge as the 2024 Eastern Comma Artist-in-Residence. Taqralik Partridge is an artist, writer, spoken word poet, and curator from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. Her artwork has been showcased both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at venues such as the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Radical Stitch), Carleton University Art Gallery (The Baroness von Elsa Project), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Among All These Tundras), Onsite Gallery (ᐳᓛᖃᑎᒌᑦ (Pulaaqatigiit)), and the Sydney Biennale in Australia. Partridge’s performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One, and she has toured with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She is currently one of the six shortlisted artists for the 2024 Sobey Art Award.

Musagetes is very proud of our longstanding working relationship with Taqralik. She has been a past resident artist through Musagetes’ Thread Residency program and has curated and participated in events for the organization’s ArtsEverywhere Festival. In 2020, through support of Musagetes’ Indigenous Otherwise program and PS Guelph, she published a book of poetry titled curved against the hull of a peterhead.

The Eastern Comma Artist-in-Residence program is named after a butterfly found near water sources in the eastern half of North America, and sporting comma-like markings on the underside of its wings. Held annually, this primarily literary residency has also engaged visual artists and musicians in its history. It is an initiative of the Musagetes Foundation and has its roots in a long-time programming relationship with the rare Charitable Research Reserve, that also includes the Question Mark Butterfly Fellowship, and the inaugural Long Dash Festival held in August 2024.

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