Wabanaki 2022 🌩

Gallery On Queen is pleased to invite you to our upcoming “Wabanaki 2022,” a multidisciplinary exhibition that honours and highlights the work and heritage of Indigenous artists from Atlantic Canada. We are overjoyed to showcase works from painters, woodcarvers, silversmiths, bead and quill artists, ceramists and late master artists.

The work of East Coast Indigenous artists tells the important story of the people most affected by the arrival of the settlers. Wabanaki is a rare cornucopia of kept traditional and artistic knowledge infused with personal experiences of the modern-day. It is a testimony to the people’s resilience of the dawn living on the territory called Wabanaki.

The Wabanaki people, also known as the People of the Dawn, are the easternmost tribes of Turtle Island, also referred to as Northeastern woodland tribes. Their culture and language have been in existence for over 10,000 years. Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqewik, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Abenaki are the member tribes: Tribes that have endured the earliest and most prolonged contact with the new man on this continent.

Join us for the “Wabanaki 2022” exhibition opening on Friday, June 3rd at 6:30PM with a live performance by Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers and a chant performed by award-winning musician J. Hubert Francis.

We are also excited to announce that for the second year now, the exhibition is travelling to Toronto. “Wabanaki 2022” will show at The Oval in Yorkville Village from July 7th – 17th. More details to follow.

Wabanaki Artists: Audrey Arseneault, Katie Augustine, Ingrid Brooks, Brian Francis, Frannie  Francis, Tara Francis, Charlie Gaffney, Marcus Gosse, Tim Hogan, Nancy Oakley, Melissa  Peter-Paul, Chantal Polchies, Shane Perley-Dutcher, Justin Sappier, Alan Syliboy, Garry Sanipass. Late master artists: Ned Bear, Roger Simon