The Campbell River Art Gallery (CRAG) welcomes an impressive line-up of Indigenous rising stars for the exhibition Recover All That Is Ours.
The group show, guest curated by Shannon Webb-Campbell, a Mi’kmaq writer and poet, features visual artists Meryl McMaster, Meagan Musseau, Lindsay Dobbin, and collaborators Becca Taylor, Breanna & Niki Little, and poets Janet Rogers and Gwen Benaway. Fusing artistic strategies like performance, land-based creation, video, photography, installation and poetry, each visual artist and poet seeks to shed light on reclamation, resurgence and resilience. Enter an immersive experience that brings the viewer into the intrinsic connection between the visual and poetic to explore the reconnection with traditional knowledge systems and territory.
The gallery has commissioned Walter Kaheró:ton Scott, a Kahnawake-born artist who lives between Toronto and Montreal to create three new drawings. They come from Scott’s Wendy cartoon, a project he began drawing for fun after finishing art school in 2009. With two books in print and several exhibitions, the CRAG is proud to be a stop in the Wendy-verse. The stories follow Wendy, an art school party girl, and her friends as they try to ‘make it’ in the art world. Scott’s sarcastic portrayals and distinct style are a sideways world you don’t want to miss.
The gallery has partnered with Thrifty Foods and Beaufort Winery for the reception on Thursday, March 1 from 6-8 p.m . The exhibition runs from March 1 to April 25, and the gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday noon to 5 p.m.Come for the visual and poetic experience, refreshments, snacks, and family friendly activity. Educator Amy Louise, will provide free craft activities for children and youth at the Campbell River Art Gallery’s Kids’ Table Hangout.
Guest curator, Mi’kmaq writer and poet Shannon Webb-Campbell will perform a reading of her highly anticipated new book Who Took My Sister? The reading will take place March 3 from 1-3 p.m. Who Took My Sister? is a collection of poems and letters written to the many members of her community that hold and carry trauma; they are a choir and a haunting testament of enduring histories.
For more information, contact the Campbell River Art Gallery at 250-287-2261, email contact@crartgallery.ca or visit www.crartgallery.ca.