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The ReMatriate Collective (created in 2015) is an Indigenous women's collective, that uses social media to connect Indigenous peoples, particularly women, through art interventions. The collective is composed of women across Western and Northern Canada. [1]
The campaign formed to represent Indigenous women in a positive light and let people see the diversity and complexity of Indigenous women, and the strength and beauty of living cultures. [2]
ReMatriate aims to empower Indigenous women and provide women role-models for young Indigenous girls, using social media. [3]
ReMatriate participated in the exhibition Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts, September 4, 2018 - December 2, 2018 at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dana Claxton imposed images of the collective's members onto an archival image that references the Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC) 1978 protest action against the Muckamuck Restaurant. [4]
In 2019, ReMatriate guest curated the exhibition qaʔ yəxʷ - water honours us: Womxn and Waterways, April 10 – October 2, 2019, at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. [5] The exhibition focuses on the connection between "womxn and water in the matriarchal societies of the Northwest Coast, with special attention to the roles of child-bearers, healers, and doulas." [6]
2015 - Adäka Cultural Festival - Whitehorse, Yukon. [7]
Rebecca Belmore is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is particularly notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and member of Obishikokaang. Belmore currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The gallery is housed in an award-winning building designed by architect Peter Cardew and opened in 1995. It houses UBC's growing collection of contemporary art as well as an archive containing more than 30,000 objects related to the history of art in Vancouver.
Beau Dick was a Kwakwaka'wakw Northwest Coast artist and Chief who lived and worked in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. He was a contemporary artist, activist and hereditary Chief from the Namgis First Nation. Dick was an award winning artist with an extensive national and international exhibition history.
Lorna Brown is a Canadian artist, curator and writer. Her work focuses on public space, social phenomena such as boredom, and institutional structures and systems.
Lillian Irene Hoffar Reid was a Canadian painter. She was in the first graduating class, June 1929, at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Art. She taught at the Vancouver School of Art from 1933 to 1937.
Laiwan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her wide-ranging practice is based in poetics and philosophy.
Tania Willard is an Indigenous Canadian multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and curator, known for mixing traditional Indigenous arts practices with contemporary ideas. Willard is from the Secwepemc nation, of the British Columbia interior, Canada.
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Anne Riley is an multidisciplinary artist with German and Slavey Dene ancestry. Born in Dallas TX, Riley currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Several of Riley's works are originated from her identity as an indigiqueer, which term is used by indigenous artists including a writer Joshua Whitehead, who make space for two-spirits to practice their identity through indigenous ceremonies, as a mean of defending colonial suppression. Through art projects, Riley also explores indigenous methods of learning through embodiment and nurturing of community and environment. Riley received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Riley is a recipient of the City of Vancouver Studio Award (2018-2021).
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