Boarder X
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Art Gallery of Alberta 2 Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2C1
Micheal Langan / Colonialism Skateboards Collaboration with Kent Monkman, :The Four Continents," 2018
skateboard desks. Photo: Don Hall, courtesy of the MacKenzie Art Gallery.
Thursday, March 14, 6–7 pm Free!
Join us at your AGA for a series of tours of Boarder X led by Edmonton community members. The Community Tour series presents visitors with unique perspectives on the stories and history told in the exhibition.
Free event during Thursday All Access Evenings6-7 pm (3rd floor)Maximum tour capacity 30 people
This evening we are thrilled to welcome Dusty LeGrande, a local designer and founder of Mobilize Waskawewin, to lead our first community tour of Boarder X.
Dusty is a human being, a father, a clothing designer and Indigenous. Through his streetwear brand Mobilize, Dusty focuses on empowering, educating and showing perspectives on Indigenous peoples and history. His message is one of creating an inclusive future in which all are unified in sustaining Mother Earth.
Dusty has also been instrumental in the activation of Boarder X when he and three artists from iHuman painted the Vans halfpipe, which was installed in the AGA’s Manning Hall and available for skate clinics and open skate during the exhibition’s opening weekend.
Boarder X features work by Indigenous artists that use snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing to demonstrate knowledge and relationships to the land. The artwork reflects cultural, political, environmental and social perspectives related to the landscapes and territories we occupy. These boarding lifestyles share synergies with Indigeneity, connected by an appreciation for the land and water. The exhibit reveals how culture, art and board intersect. In this context, board culture works to examine contested spaces, political borders, hybrid identities and traditional territories.
Jordan Bennett
Micheal Langan/
Colonialism Skateboards
Collaboration withKent Monkman
Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Roger Crait
Steven Davies
Mark Igloliorte
Mason Mashon
Meagan Musseau
Meghann O’Brien
Les Ramsay
Amanda Strong
Boarder X has been organized and circulated by the Winnipeg Art Gallery, curated by Jaimie Isaac.