Areas of Teaching and Research:

• Indigenous contemporary art history
• Indigenous feminism 
• Indigenous curatorial research methodologies
• Contemporary art history
• Eco art history

Biography:

Dr. Stacey Koosel is a Red River Métis art history scholar with an active curatorial research practice. She teaches art history courses at Ishkaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg, Department of Visual Art that are cross-listed with the department of Native Studies and the department Women and Gender Studies at Brandon University. 

 Her research projects are grounded in Indigenous feminism and Indigenous curatorial methodologies.

 She recently co-curated Prairie Thunder (2025) at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (AGSM) with Marie-Anne Redhead, and funding from the BC Arts Council and Manitoba Arts Council. With artworks by Cree, Métis, Anishinaabe and Dakota contemporary artists, the exhibition highlights the power and spirit of healing generated by relationships to the land and kin, with special focus on mother-daughter bonds, while serving as a generative site of knowledge transmission, reciprocity, resistance, and futurity.

Dr. Koosel’s BURC funded archival research into the influential artist and cultural activist Daphne Odjig, investigates the artist’s connections to Brandon University in the early stages of her career. 

For the past five years she has collaborated with the Indigenous Art Intensive at UBC Okanagan, an Indigenous artist residency program with courses, exhibitions, presentations and workshops. In 2025 she received SSHRC funding with Tania Willard and Peter Morin for the Indigenous Art Intensive. 

Courses Taught:

32/68: 382 Contemporary Indigenous Art

 32/68: 261 Canadian Indigenous Art

32: 300 Indigenous Curatorial Practice

 32/36: 251 Art of Indigenous Women of North America

32: 264 Survey of Contemporary Art

32/36:240 Gender Issues in Art

 32:255 Experiments in Performance Art

32:367 Issues in Contemporary Art

 32:165 Survey of Western Art I