Meagan Musseau

Meagan Musseau is a L’nu woman, artist, and dancer from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland). Musseau nourishes an interdisciplinary arts practice through work with customary art forms and new media, such as basketry, beadwork, land-based performance, video and installation. Musseau’s practice is rooted by her body in relation to the land and water, and she utilizes natural and synthetic materials as a way to explore endurance, collaboration, language and storytelling. Her artworks exhibit regionally and nationally, and have recently hit an international platform at the North Atlantic Triennale traveling to Maine, Iceland, and Sweden.

In 2022, Musseau designed an artist video project and curated a group exhibition titled, Heart of the Root, which features five Indigenous artists from Newfoundland and Labrador for First Light St. John’s Friendship Centre. She actively participates in artist residencies and has performed at Spirit Song Festival, Bonavista Biennale, and in landscapes across Turtle Island. Over the past ten years of dedication to building a professional arts practice, Musseau was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award (2021) and a recipient of the Atlantic Canadian Emerging Artist Award, Hnatyshyn Foundation (2018).