Feature Story: Michele Sereda Artist-in-Residency announced

Abstract

Two local artists, Eagleclaw Thom and Joey Tremblay, have been named to the Artist-in-Residency that will honour the memory of Michele Sereda. The residency aims to create engagements between artists, organizations and students around socially relevant issues. Thom is an alumnus of Fine Arts. He’s a visual artist who will use the residency to gather stories of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. He will translate the images (silk screening, painting and photography) that will speak to what is lost. “These multimedia pieces will depict the good memories these women left behind,” says Thom. “The project will encourage the families and communities experiencing loss to tell the stories from their point of view. Too often, media stories about missing and murdered Indigenous women, exhibit biases and prejudices, painting the picture of women who are not valued. My project seeks to depict who these women were, who misses them, and what they were like.”