Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential SchoolsTools Carr, Geoffrey; Watson, Scott. Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. Vancouver, BC: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia.
Abstract (English)"This exhibition was occasioned by a gathering, the Dialogue on the History and Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools, held at the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning on November 1, 2011. At the conclusion of the daylong meeting, Chief Robert Joseph asked those of us present if we could act to raise awareness of the history and legacy of the residential schools. Thus, the idea of the present exhibition came to be – as a response to a request. An exhibition of art seemed a way to bring the issues around residential schools to a broad audience, while considering the impact of the schools on art itself. [...] We wanted to honour this request to show works that might point to healing and the future while still telling some of the stories that needed telling about the schools." -- p. 5 of the document.
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