History Bites: Hope and Healing, A Conversation with Tracey-Mae Chambers

History Bites is a monthly series of bite-sized conversations inspired by current exhibitions and stories from the collection.

In this episode, Guelph Museums Curator Dawn Owen, hosts a one-hour podcast-style conversation with Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers that dives deeper into her nation-wide art installation, on display at the Civic Museum from September 24, 2021 until February 22, 2022.

This conversation with Tracey-Mae Chambers centres on her project called #hopeandhealingcanada, through which she responds to our collective experiences of the pandemic and decolonization. In this work, Tracey-Mae mourns with Indigenous communities and Canadians as unmarked graves are discovered at the sites of former Residential Schools across the country. Decolonizing themes of hope and healing drive her work as she symbolically reconnects a fractured society with tangled webs of red yarn. #hopeandhealingcanada asks how we can heal and support one another through traumatic and life-altering events.

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