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Art NOW series featuring Namaakii Bee Bear Hat
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October 15 | Noon | Zoom webinar
We are excited to be collaborating with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery on this Zoom talk. Namaakii Bee Bear Hat鈥檚 exhibition,听Something Given, is on view at SAAG until October 18.
Namaakii Bee Bear Hat is a Mohkinstsis based artist, whose Blackfoot and Cree/Dane-zaa ancestors have lived on the lands that are now part of Treaty 7 and 8, for many millennia. Her work explores this cultural lineage through installation, photography, text and collage. Bear Hat graduated from the Alberta 免费福利资源在线看片 of the Arts in 2011, where she majored in painting. Her work explores identity and story-telling, wanting to give back to the rich stories of her home territories. Within her work, Bear Hat is unfolding that which ties her to these unique landscapes.
Bear Hat鈥檚 most recent work, Something Given, is a solo exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Other recent exhibitions include, Story Keeping exhibition at The Nanaimo Art Gallery, Big Rock River: Contemporary Indigenous Art in an Ancient Land (2022) exhibition at The Okotoks Art Gallery; Related (2022), at Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver; Visions of the Hunt (2018), The Esplanade, Medicine Hat; n铆chiwamiskw茅m | nimidet | ma soeur | my sister, Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), Art M没r, Montr茅al and I Believe in Living (2018), Untitled Arts Society, Calgary. Bear Hat has also been awarded the Joane Cardinal Schubert Memorial Scholarship in 2011 and the Sonia de Grandmaison Scholarship in 2013.
听Image courtesy of the artist.
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