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Brett Graham: Pioneer

September 2 - February 4 MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St.

A prairie schooner/grain wagon fabricated in Regina by Brett Graham, an artist of Maori and European descent from Aotearoa (New Zealand), considers the prairies as ocean and the tide of settlers as a flood that overwhelmed and devastated the Plains First Nations. Giving form to the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day, Graham’s hybrid sculpture was created for the Neutral Ground exhibition WANTED: An Exhibition of Objects of Dread and Desire in 2015 and is a promised donation to the MacKenzie.

Jeff Funnell: Notes from the Inquest September 30 - January 28

Against the backdrop of Brett Graham’s response to settlement period injustices, Notes from the Inquest by Winnipeg artist Jeff Funnell points to the urgent problems of racial discrimination and social inequality faced by Indigenous people today. In April 1988, Funnell attended and documented the coroner’s inquest into the police shooting of J.J. Harper, a Wasagamack Cree leader shot by Winnipeg police constable Robert Cross. Funnell’s 90 courtroom drawings tell the story of the inquest through quickly executed sketches, personal notes and commentary.

Dana Claxton: The Sioux Project– Tatanka Oyate September 30 - January 7

Dana Claxton: The Sioux Project-Tatanka Oyate (2017) is the first art exhibition to explore contemporary Sioux aesthetics in Saskatchewan. In this new work, Hunkpapa Lakota artist Dana Claxton claims the term Sioux for Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota peoples as she dedicates herself to a careful analysis of contemporary Sioux relationships to the land. She does this by projecting interconnected stories onto four circular canvas screens. Viewers are invited into the circle to consider the many dialogues presented from hours of digital video footage and still photographs collected from a series of workshops she and Cowboy Smithx held with Sioux youth from Standing Buffalo and White Cap

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