CUAG's "Walking with Our Sisters" Make Peter Simpson’s “Favourites in Visual Arts 2015” List, Ottawa Citizen
Read Peter Simpson’s review in the Ottawa Citizen.
The Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) has received praise from the Ottawa Citizen’s Peter Simpson for hosting some of his favourite visual art of 2015.
Featured on the list was celebrated exhibition Walking With Our Sisters presented at CUAG in partnership with Gallery 101 and the WWOS Ottawa organizing committee.
“Almost 2,000 pairs of vamps — the decorated upper part of a moccasin — were created in memory of missing and murdered indigenous women. The vamps were made by hundreds of people around the world, in response to a call from Métis artist Christi Belcourt, and the communal result was both sad and inspiring,” writes Simpson.
Maryanne Barkhouse’s Locavore and David Fels’ Inclusivity (a sculpture Fels realized in collaboration with Larry McCloskey at the Paul Menton Centre, and installed for the “Art of Access,” the PMC’s 25th-anniversary celebration held in fall 2015 at the River Building) also made Simpson’s 2015 list.