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#hopeandhealingcanada
This is my beautiful boy Parker.  On February 17, 2023 he lost his hard fought battle with addiction to opioids and fentanyl.   He was only 23 years old.
Parker was my harshest critic and my staunchest supporter.  He attended to help some of my installations and travelled with me when I was working on the weekends.  I miss his opinions and his help as well as his smiling face and sharp humour and our standing Saturday date together.
While the #hopeandhealingcanada project continues I will also be working on a project which will aim to speak about this crisis in Canada as well as the stigma that accompanies addiction.  Every death that happens as a result of addiction is a clear failure of drug policies in this country.  My work will address and confront this political failing as well as the responsibility of the pharmaceutical companies.  

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#hopeandhealingcanada  
metis.installation.artist@gmail.com
Site specific art installations across Canada 
Reconciliation and decolonization
Studio Address is 
4996 King St, Beamsville ON 


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I am a Métis installation artist and a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario. My family is from several traditional Métis communities . I am from both the Vasseur-Longlade and Cadieux-Evans families.
I am traveling Canada creating site specific art installations at residential school historical sites, cultural centres, museums, art galleries and other public spaces.

​The goal of these works is to broach the subject of decolonization with viewers and staff. The installations are created with large premade crochet, and knit pieces made with red yarn. These are created both inside and outside and weather the elements quite successfully. The installations can be in place for as long as the venue would like. Once dismantled the work itself will be returned to me and it will be reworked and repurposed at another site somewhere in the country. The stories from each participating venue will culminate into a book and traveling exhibition.

Many (but not all) of these public spaces serve to present a colonial viewpoint and primarily speak about the settlers who arrived and lived here but not the Indigenous people that were displaced along the way. The decolonization of such places is a ponderous task and must be shouldered collectively. The discussion of reconciliation and decolonization is hard to start and harder still to maintain. Therefore, I am hoping to use my work to help bridge the gap between settlers and 
Indigenous, the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit of Canada by creating art that is approachable and non-confrontational so we can start. As I am part Métis and European I am conscious of the privilege my 'whiteness' affords me and bridging this gap is in fact a form of self education and self healing. I have entitled this body of work #hopeandhealingcanada
Maarsi poor toon taan,
Tracey-Mae

thequeenbeestudio@gmail.com
metis.installation.artist@gmail.com

2021 #hopeandhealingcanada

2023 #hopeandhealingcanada

Venues 2023  this is not a complete list and is updated often
(date indicates installation day)

Langley Centennial Museum January 10
March 17-18 Canada Agriculture and Food Museum 

One of a kind show Toronto March 29 - April 2
Artist Project Toronto April 12-16
Vancouver Art BC May 4-7
Granville Island BC May 9-10
Richmond Cultural Centre May 12
Evergreen Cultural Centre BC May 15
KIng Heritage & Cultural Centre ON May 23
PAMA June 1
Mattawa Museum ON June 3
Le Musée de l’Auberge Symmes QC June 4

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 ​Halifax June 6
​Science North June 15
Niagara Falls Museum June 19
​Oshawa Museum June 20
Rideau Hall-Official Residence of Her Excellency
​The Governor General Mary Simon.  June 21 
Lacombe Museum AB June 23
Shurniak Gallery SK July 24

Robert Langdon Art Gallery August 18
Vaughan University Library, Acadia University September 18 NS
Museum of Surrey October 17 BC
Royal Agricultural Fair November 2-12
Fashion Art Toronto 
Pier 1 semi permanent work install December 3-7


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2024 Venues
Karsh-Masson Gallery and City Hall Art Gallery
Arnprior and District Museum

Kronau Heritage Museum
Westfield Heritage Village Conservation Area
Lambton Heritage Museum

Museum of Lennox & Addington

2025 Venues
City of Toronto Archives
Heritage Park

2022 #hopeandhealingcanada



Completed Venues 2021 
K2 Gallery 
Gage Park 
Stratford Art Gallery
NRPC- Balls Falls
Niagara Pumphouse Gallery
Riverbrink Art Museum
Niagara Falls City Hall
Grimsby Public Art Gallery
Bayfront Park Hamilton
Dundas Museum and Archives
Port Dover Harbour Museum
Carnegie Gallery
Craft Ontario
City of Pickering
Trillium Health Partners Mississauga
Orillia Museum of Arts & History
McMaster Art Museum
​Black Creek Pioneer Village
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum National Historic Site
Celebration of Nations St Catharines
M'Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Guelph Museums
Woodland Cultural Centre
Humber Galleries
​Peel Art Gallery S
Queen Elizabeth Cultural Centre Oakville
Hamilton Art Gallery
Parliament Hill
McIntosh Art Gallery @Western University
Niagara Arts Centre 
Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre
Sault St Marie Museum
Wellington County Museum
Cultural Centre Halton Hills
Gibson Museum
Todmorden Mills
Montgomery"s Inn
Spadina Museum
Colborne Lodge
Scarborough Museum
Fort York
Mississauga Festival of trees
Waterloo Park


Venues 2022 
Bruce County Museum Feb 14 
Deep Water Gallery Feb 15 
Southhampton Arts  Feb 16 
Huron County Museum  Feb 17
Gallery Stratford  Feb 18
​Archives of Ontario Feb 28 
​University of Waterloo Gallery March 2

Cambridge Art Galleries April 11
Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone (BACA) QC April 30 - May 8
ThunderBay Museum ON May 10
Douglas Family Art Centre ON May 12

​Murney Tower Museum  ON May  16
Fanshawe Pioneer Village ON May 17

Museum of Vancouver BC May  25/26
Gabriola Arts  BC May 28

Chilliwack Museum and Archives BC  June  3
Fort La Reane MB June 4

​Waterloo Park ON June 7
Schneider Haus National Historic Site ON  June 9
McDougall Cottage Historic Site ON   June 10
Doon Heritage Village ON  June 11
Glanmore National Historic Site ON June 14
Battelfield Park ON June 15
Passages Insolites QC June 19 -23

Memory Lane Heritage Village NS June 26-27
Waterloo ON July 1
​Galt Museum AB  July 4

Strathcona Museum and Archives AB July 6
​Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 15 -18
Judith and Norman Alix Gallery ON August 4/5
Black Creek Pioneer Village ON August 6
Collingwood Museum ON August 13
Dalnavery Museum September 15 MB

St.  Marys Museum ON August 2

Stouffville Museum ON September 6
St. Lawrence College ON-
       Brockville Sept 7
       Kingston Sept 8
       Cornwall Sept 9
Aurora Cultural Centre September 13 
Art Now Fine Art Fair  SK September 2o
Dalnavert Museum September 22
First Ontario Arts Centre Milton September 29
Pickering Museum Village October 8
*all work is copywritten under the Canadian Copyright Act as follows:
     Encaustic purse sculptures #1140028
     Encaustic vessel sculptures #1142346 (functional flower vase)
     The Vessel series. Encaustic sculpture  # 1140345( in the form of thin walled vessels of encaustic wax in various dimensions.)
All photos are the property of artist Tracey-Mae Chambers and/or The Queen Bee ( #240884262)
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