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Family Ties

JUNE 21 to JULY 23

Artists:
Belinda Harrow, Jennifer McRorie, Elizabeth Munro, Wendy Winter
Curated by Zoë Schneider
Organized and toured though OSAC’s Arts on the Move program

The concept of ‘family ties’ has been used in a variety of contexts to speak to a common theme of shared intimacy and bonds between family members. Family Ties explores the artists Belinda Harrow, Jennifer McRorie, Elizabeth Munro, and Wendy Winter’s familial bonds through the medium of embroidery and fibre based artworks. Here the threads of an embroidery symbolize the links we share with the ones we call family. The artists in this exhibition use embroidery and fibre-art techniques in different ways to consider the complexities of the bonds with our families and those we call kin. Textiles have an inherent ability to make us feel warm, safe, cared for; they offer familiarity. This familiarity is the underpinning of the exhibition, demonstrating the weight of family connection.

Touring throughout Saskatchewan from November 2020 through to July 2023 to the following communities: La Ronge, Lumsden, Tisdale, Indian Head, Leader, Regina Beach, Assiniboia, Shaunavon, Hudson Bay, Warman, Prince Albert, Melfort, Yorkton, Outlook, Rosthern, Nipawin, and Weyburn through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils Arts on the Move Program

For more information on Family Ties please check OSAC’s website at www.osac.ca Or contact Zoë Schneider, Visual & Media Arts Coordinator OSAC Phone (306)586-1252

Funding for this project is provided by Saskatchewan Lotteries, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC)

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Virtual Concert:
JEFFERY STRAKER
PRESENTED BY OSAC

May 11th, 2021 @ 7:30 p.m.

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Jeffery Straker grew up taking piano lessons in small-town Saskatchewan and swears he was born under the piano on the family farm. Since then he’s gone on to perform over 100 shows per year across Canada, Europe and Latin America and was named the 2020 Saskatchewan Music Awards Roots/Folk Artist of the Year. The storytelling nature of his songs has the power to transport a listener - out onto a lake in Canada’s North or to the main street of a prairie town. Described as “a clever lyricist with an energetic piano style” his song writing has drawn critical comparisons to the likes of Harry Chapin, Kris Kristofferson & Billy Joel.