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2024 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Kate Beaton | "Bodies of Art and Bodies of Labour"

Award-winning cartoonist and author Kate Beaton gave the 2024 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture on March 7, 2024, on stage at the TIMMS CENTRE for the ARTS, at the University of Alberta. The lecture, "Bodies of Art and Bodies of Labour," examines class and its influence on the Arts in Canada: Class has always been a reality in Canada, but not a reality whose influence and power we have always acknowledged in the Canadian Arts scene. A working class person or a poor person is much less likely to become an artist than a middle class person or a wealthy person. They are less likely to be able to tell their own stories to a wider audience, and thus create the culture that we share—what becomes our national culture, the way we see ourselves, or the way we see each other. Yet, in demographic surveys of Arts, Publishing or Culture in Canada, you will rarely see economic background accounted for. In this and other ways, class remains an outlier. One thing is certain though—if working class and poor people do not write themselves into stories, other people certainly will. I have been aware of class my entire life. Class has shaped my identity, my career, and my art. As I said in Ducks, the graphic novel you probably know my name by, we are from the have-not region of a have-not province, and it has not boomed here in decades. And so I want to talk about class and literature from my perch here in that region, the coasts of Cape Breton Island. Plenty has been written over the years, from writers up and down the class spectrum. Results vary. Plenty of art has been made as well. My book dealt with some harrowing truths of working in isolated work camps in the oil sands. It was the reality of life. But I would not say it was the whole picture. I know I am here as a working artist today partly because I am the beneficiary of a community and a culture that has long valued art. Art for no money, for each other, for yourself, for memory, for community, for joy. That is a working class legacy as well, the value of my mind I learned from my community, even as I, like everyone else, shipped my body out for labour to the oil sands. Kate Beaton is a cartoonist and graphic novelist from Nova Scotia. While studying history at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Beaton began writing comics for the student newspaper. Her comics, which combined literature, history, and off-beat humour, became immensely popular online, leading to the publication of two acclaimed comic volumes: Hark! A Vagrant (2011) and Step Aside, Pops! (2015), as well as children’s picture books The Princess and the Pony (2015) and King Baby (2016). Beaton’s first graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, received wide acclaim upon publication in 2022. In addition to being the first graphic narrative to win Canada Reads, Ducks received the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir and praise from Quill and Quire, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and President Barack Obama. Kate Beaton currently resides in Nova Scotia with her husband and two children.