The Witness Blanket

The Witness BlanketFor more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada. Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that history is never forgotten. The Blanket is a living work of arta collection of hundreds of objects from those schools. It includes everything from photos, bricks, hockey skates, graduation certificates, dolls and piano keys to braids of hair. Behind

Virginia McKenna

women's studies

with a new vocation and a new lease on life

scuba divers

Killer Whale Crosshatch designed by Kwakwaka’wakw Artist Curtis Wilson

This incisive work unsettles dominant political narratives that cast Indigenous men as reactive and Indigenous women as apolitical

Coast Salish

This pioneering dialogue with 38 extraordinary folk and tribal artists from across India focuses on the idea of a museum - particularly for communities historically regarded as anthropological subjects

They come with a hardcover gift box

that they can only use their English names and that they can't speak to each other

Artists give form and meaning to both the land and the invisible landscape of the spirit

the missionaries who taught in them