Artist Geanna Dunbar will guide us through a culture conversation and lead an adult clay workshop featuring sculptures that incorporates the history and impact of residential schools.
This is an in-person program. Registration is required.
This focused adult clay workshop honors residential school survivors and children, featuring cut braid or moccasin sculptures (including memorial child moccasins), and incorporates a history and impact colonization and genocide had on Indigenous people.
Held in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Part of Culture Days programming, thanks to funding from SaskCulture through the support of SaskLotteries.
About the Artist:
Geanna Dunbar is a Cree-Métis spoken word poet, visual artist, body modification artist, and entrepreneur from Regina with a special interest in sustainable art and interdisciplinary community collaboration. Geanna works in mixed media collage, sculpture, acrylic, street art, chalkboard, window painting, and large-scale murals. She is now YWCA 2024 Women of Distinction Award Winner for Indigenous Resurgence in Action. Her work with The Path of Reconciliation, the longest mural in Saskatchewan - went internationally featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington and published in Hyperallergic Magazine based out of Brooklyn, NY.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Learn and Personal Interest | Indigenous | Art and Creation |
TAGS: | Indigenous | Crafts and Hobbies | Artist and Author Talks |
Albert Branch is an inner-city branch that serves the North Central area of Regina. It is located in mâmawêyatitân centre, a one-of-a-kind facility shared by the City of Regina, the Regina Board of Education and Regina Public Library to that offers integrated services and resources and services to in the North Central community.
Albert Branch offers an extensive collection of adult, young adult and juvenile materials that support and reflect the members of this unique community. The Branch also offers programming that develops knowledge and understanding of the diverse cultural groups in Regina, while highlighting the Indigenous community.
The Albert Branch collection includes fiction and non-fiction titles, CDs, DVDs/Blu-ray, spoken word, graphic novels, magazines, family literacy kits, Indigenous language kits and access to all the RPL digital resources.
