Breathe: Creating Resilience through Traditional Art
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Royal Alberta Museum 9810 103a Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 0G2
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.