#hopeandhealingcanada  #hopeandhealingusa
Site specific art installations across Canada & USA
Reconciliation and decolonization

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I am a Métis installation artist.  I am a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario.   My family is from and some still reside in the traditional Métis community in Sault Ste Marie and Penetanguishene, Ontario. I am traveling Canada and the USA 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, Métis and Inuit people 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 and #hopeandhealingusa
Maarsi poor toon taan, 
Tracey-Mae

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

2022 #hopeandhealingcanada

2021 #hopeandhealingcanada

 


Venues 2022 this is not a complete list and is updated often
( date indicates installation day)

​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
Buxton National Site ON June 13
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

Walker House ON July 8
​Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 15 -18
July 18-23 Sask and Manitoba
August Alberta 
St. Lawrence College ON-
Brockville Sept 7
Kingston Sept 8
Cornwall Sept 9
​October NFLD 




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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

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LINKS TO PRESS
www.cbc.ca/arts/using-thousands-of-metres-of-red-string-this-metis-artist-is-bringing-a-message-of-healing-across-canada-1.6194051

​humber.ca/today/news/decolonize-decolonize-decolonize-artist-brings-hopeandhealingcanada-humber
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/tracey-mae-chambers-trc-hope-and-healing-canada-1.6193885

www.mississauga.com/news-story/10479880-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-rings-hollow-for-some-members-of-the-indigenous-community/

www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/10476360-m-tis-artist-fosters-hope-and-healing-with-almonte-art-installation/

guelphmuseums.ca/event/hope-and-healing-tracey-mae-chambers-exhibition/
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Stratford Herald
stratfordbeaconherald.prod.postmedia.digital/entertainment/local-arts/metis-artist-looks-to-inspire-hope-and-healing-with-outdoor-exhibit-at-gallery-stratford
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Hamilton Spectator
www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2021/08/10/hamilton-artist-is-stitching-together-a-fractured-world.html

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