Day 9: Art Museum & Exploring Saskatoon
June 14, 2022
During our last day in Saskatoon we spent the morning hearing from Rob Norrise, the province’s former Education Minister and later In the afternoon spent time at Saskatoon's Modern Art Museum.
The sculpture(image on the right) in the exhibit by Buffalo Boy, Adrian Stimpson left an intense impression on me. They used an actual bed from one of the old residential schools to create this piece. (Elder Roland shared how when he was placed In a residential school his name was taken away and they called him by a number.)
The museum featured some of the mirrors from the Mirror Shield Project created by Cannupa Hanska Luger."Cannupa Hanska Luger’s mirrored shield epitomizes the values of a Water Protector. Inspired by images of Ukrainian women holding up glass mirrors to riot police, the mirror shields were conceptualized using safe materials and first deployed at Standing Rock in November 2016 at the Oceti Sakowin Camp to stop Dakota Access Pipeline construction from crossing the Missouri River."
