2024 Venues #hopeandhealingcanada Arnprior and District Museum May-Aug Aga Khan Museum May-Aug Fulford Place and Homewood Museum June - Sept Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery May-Aug The Village at Black Creek May -Sept Lambton Heritage Museum June - Aug Westfield Heritage Village Conservation Area June - Sept Richmond Hill Library June -Sept Lincoln Museum June - Sept Kronau Heritage Museum July-Sept Fort Frances Museum July- Sept Kitchener Public Library Aug-Oct Historic Bovaird House Sept-Dec Hillfield Strathallan College Sept-Dec Galerie McClure Sept-Dec Gladstone House Sept - Jan Nuit Blanche Toronto Oct 5 Kelowna Art Gallery Oct 2025 Venues City of Toronto Archives Heritage Park |
I am an installation artist and a citizen 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. 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 |
2021 #hopeandhealingcanadaCompleted 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 |
2023 #hopeandhealingcanadaVenues 2023
(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 -2 year installation work install December 3-7 Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for Exhibition Assistance 2022 #hopeandhealingcanadaVenues 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 |