Joi T. Arcand (born 1982) is a nehiyaw photo-based artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, who currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario.
She spent many summers working in the Muskeg Lake Archives which gave Arcand her love of old photographs and history.
[5] She began making artwork that addressed her identity in the second year of her studies at the University, at which point she decided to focus on photography and printmaking.
[11] Arcand was the Nigig Visiting Artist in Residence in Indigenous Visual Culture with the Faculty of Design at OCAD University from 15 October – 11 November 2017.
[19] Arcand was the curator of a collective mural project in Ottawa from 21 June 2018 to October 2019 titled nākatēyimisowin – Taking Care of Oneself.
Four Indigenous artists created the murals; Cedar Eve Peters, who is Anishinaabe, Ojibwe (Shifting of Energies), Glenn Gear, who is Inuk (Ommatik – Heart), Michelle Sound, who is a member of the Swan River First Nation and Red River Métis (Kahkiyaw acāhkosak – All the Stars), and Tara-Lynn Kozma-Perrin, who is Cree (We Are Resilient).
[23] Arcand currently acts as the Director of the Nordic Lab – a new space dedicated to artists from the circumpolar region – at artist-run-centre SAW Gallery in Ottawa.