Building Bridges and ReconciliACTION
The Colouring It Forward Society
Building Bridges and ReconciliACTION Arts Exhibition by CIF Reconciliation Society in partnership with Arts Commons, which features 14 artists who have come together to collaborate and create work together to promote healing and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
ABOUT CIF RECONCILIATION SOCIETY
CIF Reconciliation Society delivers art-based workshops and events that provide education on Indigenous ways of knowing and promote healing and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. We organize art exhibits on the theme of Truth & Reconciliation, language apps and an annual Orange Shirt Day Walk and Event called Pokaiks the Children.
https://www.artscommons.ca/whats-on/art-galleries-exhibitions/plus15-galleries
Jeremy Richardson and Isis Horne Hill present Welcome to Turtle Island, an Indigenous Futurism-inspired series of paintings. Through this exhibition, viewers delve into themes of technology, memory, and heritage, envisioning new possibilities for Turtle Island's future. We crafted three paintings, the largest portraying a decolonial narrative inspired by the Haudenosaunee creation story. It shows an alternate future where turtle space-crafts travel across a Canadian landscape, healing and keeping the land prosperous for many generations to come. The two individual paintings are expressions of personal healing and introspection which we believe is vital to a collective well being. While reflecting on our own connections with the land and heritage, we invite the viewer to reflect on their sense of place and community on Turtle Island. The first step in making a reconciled future possible is to imagine it, whether it's a turtle spaceship with cities on its back allowing the land to heal or imagining ways to empower and blend indigenous ways of knowing with existing societal powers to be on equal terms. It can be tantalizing and easy to want to give up when the goal is so broad, so changing the outlook by using positive reinforcement through humor, fantasy, and self-reflection can make the journey less daunting.
