Honoure Black, PhD

• INDG 1200 - Indigenous Peoples in Canada
• INDG 1220 - Indigenous Peoples in Canada Part 1
• INDG 1240 - Indigenous Peoples in Canada Part 2
• INDG 2000 - Indigenous Public Art (special topics)
• INDG 2540 - Indigenous in the City

Dr. Honoure Black is a white settler woman, mother, partner, and university instructor. She began teaching for the University of Manitoba in 2012 at the School of Art, in 2016, she joined the Faculty of Architecture until 2025. Honoure completed her PhD in Design and Planning in 2025 and was hired by the Department of Indigenous Studies as a full-time Instructor II. She now teaches courses relating to Indigenous and settler histories on Turtle Island and special topics courses related to her research on Winnipeg and public art. Honoure has previously instructed courses relating landscape histories and theory, art and architecture history, and the histories of Turtle Island from a material culture perspective. She has also instructed a variety of courses for the University of Winnipeg, including Canadian art and Indigenous art histories. In her personal life, Honoure has two daughters, a cat, a Bernese Mountain dog, and loving partner who keeps it all together. She is a sports mom who loves to garden and spend time in nature. 

• PhD (Design and Planning), University of Manitoba
• MA (Art History and Visual Studies), Fine Arts, University of Victoria
• BA (Art History and Classics), Arts, University of Manitoba

Research summary

Dr. Honoure Black researches the histories of Turtle Island as expressed through art and material culture. She is interested in decolonial, or anti-colonial research methods and methodologies, specifically, non-Eurocentric experiential and arts-based research to learn through place-based knowing and storytelling. Her research often engages in dialogue with public spaces, land and Indigenous acts of resurgence. Inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its 94 Calls to Action, the 79th call states: “We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Survivors, Aboriginal organizations, and the arts community, to develop a reconciliation framework for Canadian heritage and commemoration”,1 

Honoure’s dissertation: Storied Places: Decolonizing Settler Colonial Urban Landscapes with Indigenous Public Art in Winnipeg, Treaty One, focuses on remapping the histories of Winnipeg, Treaty One, through Indigenous insurgent and resurgent art in relation to the site. She is actively publishing interdisciplinary collaborative and solo projects, such as, “Re-Creating This Place: Indigenous Public Art At The Centre Of Turtle Island,” in Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures, with Dr. Niigaan Sinclair; “(Re)Entering Many Worlds: Teaching and Collaborating to Design the Pluriverse” for PUBLIC, with Shawn Bailey and Lancelot Coar; and “Returning to the Land as Wendaaji’owin (as that which sustains life), to Re-Imagine Creative Praxis” in Arts Creation: A Curriculum of Relationality, Resurgence, and Renewal edited by Jennifer Markides and Darlene St. George. 

(1) Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Accessed Sept 2025.

• Honoure Black, “Revising Settler Colonial Public Art, an Insurgent/Resurgent Story of ‘Two Victoria’s’ in Winnipeg, Treaty One.” Art in the Public Sphere ‘Open Issue’ 13.2. Edited by Gretchen Combs and Mel Jordan, 2026. *In Press
• Honoure Black, Book Review: Modigliani, Leah. Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action. Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2024, for RACAR, Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC). Upcoming issue, 50, no. 1 (Spring 2025)
• Shawn Bailey, Honoure Black, Lancelot Coar, with contribution from Kaamil Allah Baksh, Chapter 2: LAND-MARK, “Relational Architectures: Embracing Indigenous Led Paradigms for Design Process and Practice” in Land-Unceded, O B L / Q U E, Vol. 5, ISSN: 2474-6347, 2025.
• Robyn Adams, Aliyah Baerg, Shawn Bailey, Honoure Black, Lancelot Coar, and Danton Derksen. “(Re)Entering Many Worlds: Teaching and Collaborating to Design the Pluriverse” Making Worlds in the Pluriverse. Edited by Ganaele Langlois, Patricio Davila, and Renata Leitão. Toronto: Public Issue 68, 2024.
• Shawn Bailey, Honoure Black, Lancelot Coar, and Naomi Ratte. “Art and Design for Kahnowiilyaa (Everyone), Returning to the Land as Wendaaji’owin (as that which sustains life), to Re-Imagine Creative Praxis”. Arts Creation: A Curriculum of Relationality, Resurgence and Renewal. DIO Press. 2023.
• Honoure Black + Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair “Re-Creating This Place: Indigenous Public Art At The Centre Of Turtle Island” in HOLDING GROUND: NUIT BLANCHE AND OTHER RUPTURES, Edited by Julie Nagam and Janine Marchessault
• Honoure Black, “Niimaamaa, The Forks” At The Forks, Series Editors, Adele Perry and Kiera Ladner, Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba, August 9, 2021
• Shawn Bailey, Honoure Black and Lancelot Coar. “Decolonizing Design Praxis & Pedagogies with Etuaptmumk a Return to Land-Based Learning” Mindful Conversations: Design and Culture Edited by Debasri Basu, Pallavi Swaranjali and William Willoughby. 2023 Adda: A Place for Conversations, Journal 1. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats.
• Shawn Bailey, Honoure Black and Lancelot Coar. “Decolonizing the Design Process with Five Indigenous Land-Based Paradigms.” Toronto: Canadian Architect, May 2022, v.67, n.3.
• Year End Exhibition, Decolonizing Public Space, Insurgent Public Art and Design, 2021.
   

• 2024-2025 - Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research Manitoba
• 2024 - Carl R. Nelson Jr. Teaching Award, Faculty of Architecture Commitment to Teaching Excellence
• 2022 -  Outstanding Teacher Award, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba
• 2021-2024 - SSHRC Doctoral Award
• 2023, 2021 - University of Manitoba Indigenous Press Scholarship
• 2022, 2020 - Research and Learn Grant, Manitoba Arts Council
• 2021 - Maxwell Starkman Award, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba

• Board Member - Welcoming Winnipeg: Reconciling our History Policy Committee of Community Members, City of Winnipeg, Indigenous Relations Division
• Board Member - Winnipeg Arts Council
• EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) Committee Member - Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba