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Site last updated on November 18, 2022
National Gallery of Canada lays off chief and Indigenous art curators
Photographic banners by artist Genevieve Cadieux hang outside the National Gallery of Canada on July 16, 2021.ASHLEY FRASER/GLOBE AND MAIL The Globe and Mail: The National…...
November 18, 2022
Yellowhead Institute Cultural Centre
Introducing the Yellowhead Institute Cultural Centre
A Culture of ExploitationFollowing the Canada 150 celebrations in 2017, Canada allotted millions of dollars of funding into Indigenous arts, culture, and heritage. I worked…...
November 3, 2022
Repatriating Indigenous Artefacts
Yukon researchers bring Indigenous history home from museums in Ottawa and the Vatican
A heritage advisor said there has been a positive shift in how museums handle these collections CBC News Nyla Klugie-Migwans manages the Yukon government's Searching…...
October 10, 2022
Shifting the Focus
SHIFTING THE FOCUS: Cree art star Kent Monkman’s exhibition ‘Being Legendary’ opens at the ROM
Striking portraits of Métis, Inuit and First Nations people line the walls. They are a response to the years-long, heated discussion over the fate of…...
October 5, 2022
Digitized Witness Blanket
Digitized Witness Blanket invites more Canadians to bear witness to painful legacy of residential schools
The Witness Blanket, shown here at Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights, is made up of panels 'woven' from more than 800 objects collected from…...
September 29, 2022