City of Guelph 2024 Artist-in-Residence Tracey-Mae Chambers: #HopeAndHealingCanada

Name: City of Guelph 2024 Artist-in-Residence Tracey-Mae Chambers: #HopeAndHealingCanada
Start: 2024-09-22T13:00:00
End: 2024-09-22T16:00:00

In-person

Craft Fibre & textile arts Indigenous Visual arts

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Date and time

Sun, Sep 22, 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Location

Stay tuned for finalized location of this event.

Guelph, ON

Access

Free.

Offered in English.

Is a relaxed performance, has gender-neutral washrooms, and wheelchair accessible.

About

City of Guelph’s 2024 Artist-in-Residence, Tracey-Mae Chambers, will present an artist talk and single-day exhibition of the community weavings created throughout the residency, during Culture Days on Sunday, September 22. Join Tracey-Mae between 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., with an artist talk at 2 p.m. to learn about her #HopeAndHealingCanada project that has been installed across the country and brought back to Guelph this year.

Throughout the 15-week residency, Tracey-Mae Chambers engaged the Guelph community at over ten locations, in conversations centered in truth and reconciliation through community weaving workshops and pop-up textile installations both indoor and outdoor. Creating public activations and interventions using yarn and community dialogue, Tracey-Mae approaches her work through the lens of collectively decolonizing place.

About the Artist:

Tracey-Mae Chambers is a Toronto-based artist and proud citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, creating site-specific installations. Deeply influenced by her personal history, Chambers' installations invite audiences to contemplate identity, belonging, decolonization and reconciliation. Since discovering her Métis heritage in adulthood, Chambers has embarked on a quest for harmony with the natural world, where she found solace in the vessel as a metaphor for individual journeys, continually filling and refilling one's narrative. 

About the Artist-in-Residence program:

The City of Guelph offers the Artist-in-Residence program to broaden the community’s experience of the arts, inviting artists to engage with the public and showcase their creative practices while animating public spaces. The program aligns with the vision of Guelph’s Culture Plan, fostering innovation through creativity, curiosity and collaborative expression.

Organizer

City of Guelph Museums & Culture

Museums and Culture at the City of Guelph exists to:

- Collect and protect artifacts, artworks and stories that reflect our community

- Share the collections and stories − locally, nationally and internationally − through exhibition, interpretation,

and online access

- Provide inclusive, accessible, interactive, and enlightening experiences

- Nurture interest and engagement in history, art and culture

- Cultivate a connection to place, with focus on the tangible and intangible cultural landscape unique to Guelph

Contact

Ahmri Vandeborne

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