Reframed Tour & Workshop (School 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, 2019-15960 minute tour
60 minute tour & 60 minute workshop
Reframed Tour & Workshop
In this tour, students 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.
Workshop
Students will create a mixed media frame artwork, using transparency sheets to create layers and frames in a box.
(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)
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