MCC Gallery of Indigenous Art: Inaugural Virtual Exhibit “Andy Trudeau 1924-2013, The Drawings”

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With programming and oversight by an Indigenous member majority committee, the Midland Cultural Centre Gallery of Indigenous Arts focuses on work by artists and artisans of the Beausoleil First Nation, members of the Georgian Bay Métis community, and will also feature works by the broader community of Canadian Indigenous artists and artisans.

The MCC is pleased to digitally participate in Ontario Culture Days 2021 and share the inaugural exhibition of the MCC Gallery of Indigenous Arts:

“Andy Trudeau 1924-2013, The Drawings”.

Trudeau grew up on a homestead his family built on Spider Bay in the mid-1920s. The family is part of the historic Georgian Bay Métis community. When Andy was 87 years old and living in Hillcrest Home in Midland, Ontario he was trying to explain what a ‘scoot’ was to a fellow resident. When they didn’t seem to comprehend, he asked his daughter, Jo-Anne to bring him a pencil and paper. His idea was to draw a ‘scoot’ to explain what it was.

After this first pencil drawing, Andy became an artist, drawing daily in graphite pencil on loose paper and later with coloured pencils in a sketchbook. By the time of his passing two years later he had created an astounding group of drawings that documented the ‘scoots’ & boats he built, and the animals, birds & fish he trapped and caught in his long life on the outer islands of Georgian Bay. These drawings are full of precise information about their subjects, even though Andy paid little attention to the conventions of perspective. Taken together these drawings form an extraordinary document of a life lived on the remote and hard-to-access islands of Georgian Bay.

“Andy Trudeau 1924-2013, The Drawings” will first open as a virtual exhibition on the MCC website in September and will be open to the public later this fall when the MCC reopens to the public.

Links

• Midland Cultural Centre Website midlandculturalcentre.com
• Four Seasons of Entertainment in the Heart of Georgian Bay youtube.com
• Please consider making a donation in support of the MCC. canadahelps.org
• THE DRAWINGS OF ANDREW TRUDEAU - Scott Parent Film youtube.com

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Midland Cultural Centre

The Midland Cultural Centre is the focal point for culture activities in the Heart of Georgian Bay. The MCC is a community-based, volunteer driven facility where everyone can be involved in artistic and cultural pursuits as a participant or audience member. The MCC is located in the downtown core of Midland, and enhances the vibrancy and the economic well-being of the entire region.

Land Acknowledgement:

The Midland Cultural Centre acknowledges that the land on which we gather is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Ojibway/Chippewa and Potawatomi peoples, and is the ancestral home of the Huron-Wendat Nation.