Breathe: Creating Resilience through Traditional Art

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Lisa Shepherd wears her mask “Wâhkôhtowin,” a Cree word that embodies relationship not just to family but to everything, including plants, animals, the earth and the sky. (photo by Martin Shepherd)

Breathe: Creating resilience through traditional art

Through hardship, we turn to art; through challenge, we turn to tradition. Discover resilience and humanity amid a 21st-century pandemic in this exhibition of hand-crafted masks by artists from around the world.

The masks of Breathe share their makers’ unique stories of fear, courage, sadness, hope, love, and healing that unite us all. Each mask was crafted through diverse mediums including beadwork, embroidery, birch bark etching, quill work, quilting, rug hooking, metalwork, and glass fusion.