In June of 2024, members of Thinking Through the Museum hosted the “Curatorial Dreaming Workshop” at the University of Winnipeg, which served to support the development of Dr. Michelle McGeough’s exhibition Love Medicine, which at that time was in its early developmental phase. With the support of CERC and Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Curatorial Dreaming brought together a group of experienced and emerging Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer curators to come together and imagine different modes of curation together. Members of the CERC research team, RAs Kylie Fineday (UVic) and Mel Granley (UBC), attended as emerging curators.

During a two-day event, this team of Indigiqueer curators and their allies came together to experiment, vision, and dream up what Love Medicine could look like. The team was given tours of the Two-Spirit Archive by Elder Albert McLeod, Urban Shaman Gallery by Justin Bear, and collectively workshopped the potential of the project with the curator and facilitators Adrienne Huard and Dr. Shelley Butler; Butler is the originator of the Curatorial Dreaming workshop methodology. McGeough offers Love Medicine as a love letter to her community by addressing the profound absences of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer artwork and lives in public archives, museums, and gallery collections.