{"id":160896,"date":"2023-06-16T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=160896"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T16:03:11","slug":"indigenous-art-installed-permanently-at-edmonton-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/indigenous-art-installed-permanently-at-edmonton-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous art installed permanently at Edmonton City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four Indigenous artists were honored by having their art pieces permanently hung inside Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The art pieces - created by artists Dawn Marie Marchand, Brad Crowfoot, Lana Whiskeyjack and MJ Belcourt - are hung just outside of the city council chambers, one of the busiest areas of city hall.<\/p>\n

The city brought the four artists on board in 2019 as a part of Edmonton's Indigenous Framework project, and the art pieces were revealed during the June 13 ceremony at city hall.<\/p>\n

Crowfoot, the artist of the piece called \"Heartbeat of a Nation,\" said that his main inspiration was the role \"partnership\" has played with his art.<\/p>\n

\"The City of Edmonton displays some Indigenous artwork I have in Beaver Hills Park, [as well as] Macewan University. Even the cookum scarf that I use, you can see that as a partnership between the Ukrainians and the First Nations,\" he said.<\/p>\n

\"We've formed this respect for each other, and we've adopted their scarf as our own,\" Crowfoot added.<\/p>\n

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Brad Crowfoot's \"Heartbeat of a Nation\" painting on display in Edmonton City Hall. Photo by Ryan Hunt.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Whiskeyjack, the artist of the piece called \"PISISKAPAHTAM (to notice and observe or watch)\", said Indigenous culture uses art as a way of storytelling, as well as to inspire younger generations to tell the stories of the past.<\/p>\n

\"We're highly visual literate people. We've constantly been reminded [of the] unworthiness through systemic racism and violence,\" Whiskeyjack said. \"I hope [the youth] keep creating and keep building their creative muscle to show and share widely. I hope [the art] inspires them to learn more about what the symbolism means\".<\/p>\n

\"Hopefully, [this exhibit will] undo some of the racist or misinformed information people have developed around Indigenous people,\" Whiskeyjack added.<\/p>\n

\"Lana

Lana Whiskeyjack's \"PISISKAPAHTAM (to notice and observe or watch)\" painting on display in Edmonton City Hall. Photo by Ryan Hunt.<\/p><\/div>\n

Listen to the full CFWE audio with Brad Crowfoot and Lana Whiskeyjack below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Indigenous artists were honored by having their art pieces permanently hung inside Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday. The art pieces – created by artists Dawn Marie Marchand, Brad Crowfoot, Lana Whiskeyjack and MJ Belcourt – are hung just outside of the city council chambers, one of the busiest areas of city hall. The city…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":161064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,16830],"tags":[8790,2774,8603,980,9233],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160896"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162180,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896\/revisions\/162180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160896"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=160896"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=160896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}