This is an archived event from Culture Days 2024.
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#HopeAndHealingCanada with Tracey-Mae Chambers, Artist-in-Residence
In-person
Craft Fibre & textile arts Indigenous Visual artsDate and time
Location
Shelldale Family Gateway and EarlyON Centre
20 Shelldale Crescent, Guelph, Ontario N1H 1C8, Canada
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.
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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
This event is part of a hub:
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City of Guelph Museums & Culture Guelph, ONWhere art meets heritage meets a passion for the natural environment, that's So Guelph! Our creative community embodies values that define Guelph - curiosity, compassion, innovation, collaboration, diversity, environmentalism, and activism....
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