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Special guest Zoë James will tour you through the exhibition of "BLACK PRAIRIES".
Join us for a personalized tour of "BLACK PRAIRIES" exhibition at Dunlop Art Gallery.
Learn about the artwork through the perspective of a young Regina-based community member and artist, Zoë James.
Refreshments served.
Zoë always tells people that she must give off a "journaling vibe" based on the amount of notebooks she is gifted - funny thing is, she actually can not stand journaling. Instead, she pours her thoughts and feelings while processing emotions into her music making. She loves sharing her music with audiences in hopes that they may connect or relate with her songs. When she isn’t singing, which is not often, she enjoys other ways of performing. She has been dancing with FadaDance for 15 years, with four years as a teacher to the littlest dancers. An ongoing show Zoë is part of is Burnt Sienna Boulevard, a family-oriented, all ages version of Kris Alvarez's variety show Burnt Sienna. In this project she makes use of her dance and singing skills, as well as further developing them. She is a big fan of the Regina Public Library and the Dunlop Art Gallery and always loves a reason to work with them!
AGE GROUP: | Teens | Children | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Art and Creation |
TAGS: | Family | Dunlop Art Gallery | Crafts and Hobbies | Arts and Creativity | Artist and Author Talks | Art |
Christina Battle, William “Billy” Beal, Anna Binta Diallo, Cheryl Foggo, Judah Iyunade, Richard Allan Thomas, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, NASRA, Frank B. Jamerson fonds
BLACK PRAIRIES honours more than one hundred years of Black/African-Canadian cultural production in the Prairies, spanning the 1920s to the present, with a focus on lens-based media. The exhibition includes newly commissioned contemporary artwork, original glass plate negatives by early 1900s Black Manitoban photographer William “Billy” Beal, and archival photographs from the City of Edmonton’s Frank B. Jamerson fonds.
Beal’s glass plate negatives, taken between 1915 and 1925, document homesteading life in western Manitoba from the perspective of a lone Black man living in an all-white rural township during the early 1900s. Meanwhile, the photographs in the Frank B. Jamerson fonds, created by unnamed photographers, depict everyday Black life in and around Amber Valley, Alberta—a historic community formed during the Great Black Migration of 1910. This migration saw African-Americans fleeing racial violence in the United States to seek refuge in the Canadian Prairies. The selected photographs in this exhibition capture the first thirty years after the migration, reflecting the experiences of the first generation of Black migrants in the region. The contemporary artists in this exhibition foster important dialogues about personal histories, a changing climate, and collective experiences in the region.
Additionally, the exhibition includes the newly created short film For Caesar by filmmaker Cheryl Foggo. The film features Leander Lane, the great-grandson of Julius Caesar Lane, a founding member of the Shiloh People, the historic African-Canadian community in Saskatchewan.
BLACK PRAIRIES provides space for communal grounding and reflection on the ongoing and ever-expanding continuum of Black life and Black cultural production in the Prairies.
Image: Rosa and Mary, Amber Valley, Alberta c. 1940, black and white photograph, 5 x 6 cm. Frank B. Jamerson fonds, courtesy City of Edmonton Archives.
