Speaker

Jen Rae

Artist-in-Residence, UW–Madison

Dr. Jen Rae is an award-winning artist and researcher of Canadian Scottish-Métis (Indigenous) descent living on unceded Djaara Country (Castlemaine) Australia. She is recognized for her practice and expertise situated at the intersections of art, speculative futures and climate emergency disaster adaptation + resilience – predominantly articulated through transdisciplinary collaborations, multi-platform projects, community alliances and public pedagogies. Dr. Rae is the Co-founder and Creative Research Lead at the Centre for Reworlding, Co-founder (with American artist Dawn Weleski of Conflict Kitchen) and Director of Fair Share Fare, and a member of the National Task Force for Creative Recovery; she was awarded a prestigious 2023 Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging and Experimental Art.