Artist Talk with Rebecca Belmore

Name: Artist Talk with Rebecca Belmore
Start: 2025-03-06T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-06T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1080 Keewatin St, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, Ontario P7B 6T7

Schedule

Thu Mar 06 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1080 Keewatin St, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, Ontario P7B 6T7 | Thunder Bay, ON

We are honoured to invite you to an exclusive artist talk with multi-award winning artist and activist, Rebecca Belmore. This talk coincides with the 206th anniversary of the event depicted by Belmore in her piece: March 5, 1819.
Artist Talk with Rebecca Belmore
Thursday 6, March, 2025
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Free and open to all
Rebecca Belmore is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist from Lac Seul First Nation in Northern Ontario. Beginning January 17 the Gallery is pleased to present a film installation by Rebecca entitled March 5, 1819. Re-staging an under examined historic moment, Belmore collapses time and space to speak to the most pressing issues of our time, including water and land rights, women’s lives and dignity, and institutional violence against Indigenous people. This work is on loan from The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Throughout her career Rebecca Belmore’s work has garnered numerous awards and accolades, including the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award (2004), the Hnatyshyn Visual Arts Award (2009), the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2013), the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2016), and Honorary Doctorates from Ontario College of Art & Design University (2005) and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2017). In 2005, she was Canada’s official representative at the Venice Biennale where she created “Fountain” for the Canadian Pavilion.