National Gallery Announces New Program for Indigenous Artists
The National Gallery of Canada has announced a new program to support contemporary Indigenous artists.
Re-Creation is an ongoing series of collaborative projects to create objects in dialogue with pieces from the past, developed alongside artists, knowledge-keepers, curators, researchers and Indigenous community members.
Gallery director Sasha Suda will lead the program.
“It is paramount that we work towards more meaningful inclusion of Indigenous art and knowledge systems and offer our support in community-driven efforts to revitalize customary practices and techniques,” she said.
The gallery also announced the second edition of Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, an exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art.
The show, which opens Nov. 8, will include some 70 artists, and will continue the visual dialogue that began in 2013 with Sakahàn: To Light a Fire. It is organized by a team of curators that includes Greg Hill, Christine Lalonde and Rachelle Dickenson.
It will include several recent acquisitions, including work by Anishinaabe interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Belmore, Australian Aboriginal photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, and multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet, who is of Algonquin and French heritage.
Source: National Gallery of Canada
