Reconciliation Through Art
Description
Artist Geanna Dunbar will guide us through a culture conversation and lead an adult clay workshop featuring sculptures that incorporates the history and impact of residential schools.Additional Information
This is an in-person program. Registration is required.
This focused adult clay workshop honors residential school survivors and children, featuring cut braid or moccasin sculptures (including memorial child moccasins), and incorporates a history and impact colonization and genocide had on Indigenous people.
Held in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Part of Culture Days programming, thanks to funding from SaskCulture through the support of SaskLotteries.
About the Artist:
Geanna Dunbar is a Cree-Métis spoken word poet, visual artist, body modification artist, and entrepreneur from Regina with a special interest in sustainable art and interdisciplinary community collaboration. Geanna works in mixed media collage, sculpture, acrylic, street art, chalkboard, window painting, and large-scale murals. She is now YWCA 2024 Women of Distinction Award Winner for Indigenous Resurgence in Action. Her work with The Path of Reconciliation, the longest mural in Saskatchewan - went internationally featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington and published in Hyperallergic Magazine based out of Brooklyn, NY.
When
Sep 24 2025, 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Where
Albert Branch, Albert Branch
Event Type
Special Events
Topic
Indigenous, Crafts and Hobbies, Artist and Author Talks