Events from December 23, 2027
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Vanessa Hyggen: ôma askiy âpacihcikâtîw (this land is in use) - John V. Hicks Gallery at the Margo Fournier Arts CentrePresented By: Prince Albert Council for the ArtsFrom December 01, 2027 12:00 am until December 23, 2027 12:00 amThis body of work highlights the diversity, beauty, importance and plight of northern Saskatchewan muskegs, land that is being threatened with strip mining. Peat mining involves draining the water out of the muskeg then mulch the cover vegetation (sundews, pitcher plants, Labrador tea, black spruce, birch, willows, alders, cranberries, bunchberries, cloudberries, bog laurel, leatherleaf, and dozens of species of mosses). Muskegs/peatlands are very old landscapes, it takes 10 years for one centimeter of peat to form. It is important to Vanessa’s culture, and to the survival of traditions and knowledge to keep wild areas intact and undisturbed by resource extraction. Many people are unfamiliar with these areas, and this is Vanessa’s way of bringing the muskeg to the public.
Vanessa is a Canadian artist of Woodlands Cree and Norwegian ancestry. She is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and her community is nemepith sipihk (Sucker River). She holds her Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan. Vanessa is interested in utilizing memory, tradition and themes of nature in her work. Land conservation and land sovereignty are at the heart of her work, with her painting and beadwork focusing on the richness of the land, and in turn, the threats to the land. -
Storied Telling: Performativity & Narrative in Photography - Station Arts Centre CooperativePresented By: Station Arts Centre CooperativeFrom November 01, 2027 12:00 am until December 23, 2027 12:00 amAt Station Arts Centre Cooperative Program: Visual & Media ArtsOrganized by Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery;
Touring Saskatchewan through the
Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils;
Curated by Jennifer McRorie
The exhibition, Storied Telling, features photographic works by Canadian artists, whose images present as lens-based performance. The photographs reflect a performative nature, taken as video stills or documentation of performance art or presented as elaborate figurative compositions within settings that border on the fantastical or are imagined recreations of historic scenarios. In their adornment and positioning within their environments, the subjects of the photographs become powerfully iconographic. The resulting images are rife with story, reflecting diverse narratives that are poetic, political, surreal, spiritual, or perhaps even mythic; stories that inform and speak to cultural and diaspora identities that are constantly producing and reproducing themselves anew through transformation and difference.
