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Description: Resilience is a public celebration, a creative act of reconciliation and commemoration of fifty contemporary artworks by First Nations, Inuit, and Métis women artists, displayed on billboards from coast to coast from June to August 2018.
Sherry Farrell Racette, Ancestral Women Taking Back Their Dresses , gouache and watercolour on paper, 50 x 61.7 cm, 1990
Resilience: 50 Indigenous Art Cards and Teaching Guide is a boxed set that contains 50 full-colour, 8" x 10" reproductions of contemporary Indigenous art and a bilingual (English/French) teaching guide, full of ideas on how to use the art cards to animate discussions and inspire activities in all subjects, from kindergarten to grade 12. It is based on the exhibition curated by Lee-Ann Martin, with teaching guide developed by Yvette Cenerini, Lita Fontaine, Dawn Knight and Albert McLeod.
Images by 50 First Nations, Inuit and Métis women artists embody the multitude of connections and contradictions that constitute contemporary Indigenous identities. This project is a physicalized reminder of buried histories and diverse contemporary perspectives. Most often, resilience is narrowly defined in the dictionary as the ability to recover from and cope with adversity. However, long before the European invasion of the continent, resilience was a central tenet within Indigenous traditional knowledge
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