Red Dress Day Art Showcase
In honour of Red Dress Day and TRC Call 30, this exhibit honours the strength and resilience of Indigenous women in the face of systemic oppression and remembers incarcerated, missing, and murdered Indigenous women and two spirit people. The exhibit showcases Indigenous female artists Judy Ross Mack (Cree artist from Weenusk First Nation) and Vanessa Genier (Founder of Quilts for Survivors from Missanabie First Nation) and Niska Artisans Marcus Noah (Fort Albany First Nation) and Billy Koosees (Kashechewan First Nation).
What is Call 30?
The artwork is part of the Call 30 activity, co-facilitated by Mennonite Central Committee and Feather & Cross. The Call 30 activity takes its name from Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action 30, which calls for ending the mass incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada. Today, over 50% of women in Canadian prisons are Indigenous—a direct result of systemic racism and a prison pipeline that begins in child welfare and runs through education, health care and other systems.
Grebel Gallery Hours:
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Level 4, Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd N.
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