A new group exhibition opens this Saturday at the 91大黄鸭 Art Gallery and it features works by Indigenous artists Ursula Johnson, Meagan Musseau, Meghann O鈥橞rien, and Tania Willard.

Each of these artists鈥� work explores basket weaving as a way to examine interwoven narratives and histories with Woven Together. These artists consider weaving a reflexive practice where the makers鈥� hands create interlaced actions through learned, contemplative, and repetitive processes that bind layers of knowledge and material, according to a 91大黄鸭 Art Gallery news release.

Representing nations from Coast Salish Territory in British Columbia to Ktaqmkuk Territory in Newfoundland, Woven Together entangles practices, unravelling intergenerations and intertribal memories of matriarchal kinship, knowledge, and practice, the release said.

Woven Together is curated by Jaimie Isaac, Curator of Indigenous and Contemporary Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Johnson comes from a long line of Mi鈥檏maw artists. She has a background in photography, drawing, textiles, and theatre. In 2017, she won the prestigious Sobey Art Award, for her work as an emerging artist in the contemporary Canadian art scene.

Musseau is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Mi鈥檏maq and French ancestry from the community of Curling in the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador鈥� Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory of Mi鈥檏ma鈥檏i. She works with customary art practices and new media, such as beadwork, basketry, land-based action and installation, the release said.

O鈥橞rien is a Northwest Coast weaver from the community of Alert Bay, B.C. She works with an innovative approach to the traditional art forms of basketry, Yeil Koowu (Raven鈥檚 Tail) and Naaxiin (Chilkat) textiles.

Willard, of Secwe虂pemc and settler heritage, is a visual artist and MFA candidate at UBCO Okanagan. She has participated in several public art projects and recently has been working on her collaborative project entitled BUSH gallery, a conceptual land-based gallery grounded in Indigenous knowledge and relational art practices, the release said.

Woven Together is on view from July 14 to Oct. 7. An opening reception held today at 6 p.m. will feature a performance by The Salish Sisters, Tracey Kim Bonneau and Cease Wyss.

An Artists鈥� Panel will be held Tuesday, July 17, at 6 p.m.

For more information about current exhibitions, public programming or special events, visit the 91大黄鸭 Art Gallery or call 250-762-2226.

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