Reframed (Adult Program)

Image: Kent Monkman. The Deposition, from the series Urban Res, 2014. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Gift of an anonymous donor, 2019-159

 

60 minute tour

Reframed Tour

In this tour, guests will rethink how art, identity, and history are shaped by the power of perspective. Building on the important work that began with WAG-Qaumajuq’s Artworks Renaming Initiative, this exhibition invites you to consider your orientation to the artworks, histories and peoples represented. Reframed traces shifting representations of Indigenous identity, from 19th-centuy portraits and landscape paintings to 20th-century ethnographic photography and the circulation of Indigenous imagery within mass-media and popular culture. Together, these works examine Indigenous figures across time from contemporary perspectives.

 

(Product Image: Langdon Kihn. Alice Smith (Noch – Tsil) (Medicine Woman), 1924. coloured pencil, pastel, Conte crayon on paperboard, 50.8 x 38 cm. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of F.N. Southam to the Winnipeg Gallery and School of Art Collection, L-20)

 

If you are experiencing technical difficulties while booking a tour through our website, please email or call our Learning Administrator at nschuweiler@wag.ca / (204) 789-1290

Indigenous people and teacher admission is free. Please select the number of participants who do not fall under these two groups.

Please let us know if individuals in your group need specific adaptive tools, sensory accommodations, or accessible facilities to make their visit enjoyable. We will do our best to work with you to make WAG-Qaumajuq an inclusive space.