Upcoming Exhibit and Video: North Vancouver Museum and Archives
Barbara Charlie and her great niece Damara Jacobs stand in front of some of the Portraits of Ancestors painted by Maisie Hurley. Jacob’s mother was Hurley’s friend and Jacobs co-curated Entwined Histories. Photograph by: Mike Wakefield, NEWS photo
The North Shore News recently wrote this article about the upcoming exhibit Entwined Histories: Gifts from the Maisie Hurley Collection. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Sharon Fortney and Damara Jacobs, and represents the first collaboration between the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and the Squamish Nation. Entwined Histories will exhibit a selection of the gifts that Maisie Hurley, an lifetime advocate of First Nations rights in British Columbia and founder of the Native Voice Newspaper, received in her lifetime. It will also feature contemporary work of Squamish artists that are in dialogue with the Hurley collection.
I have been working with curators Dr. Fortney and Ms. Jacobs to produce a video to complement the objects in the exhibition. It is called Ongoing Legacies; Maisie Hurley, Her Work and Influence, and will feature interviews with Squamish elder Nekwnákwelut (Barbara Charlie), artist Kwetsímet (Kieth Nahanee), artist Sesémya (Tracy Williams), Dr. Phil Newton, and Justice Thomas Berger. It has been wonderful to make this contribution to the exhibit and to learn about the very powerful legacy of Maisie Hurley’s work and relationships.
The exhibit will run from January 25th 2011 to November 6 2011.
Another recent North Shore News article about the exhibit can be found here.