{"id":6790,"date":"2025-09-30T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:43","slug":"the-journey-of-the-vamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2025\/the-journey-of-the-vamp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey of the Vamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Journey of the Vamp\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The School of Social Work is honoured to be home to The Journey of the Vamp, a commemoration project developed by faculty member Deborah Young. Following the recovery of unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021, Deborah extended a public invitation to create and contribute 215 baby vamps in honour of each of these children\u2019s lives and stories. Over the following months, she received more than 350 vamps from contributors across Turtle Island and beyond. Joining with artist Michelle Thompson, the vamps were arranged into an 11-foot art installation that was unveiled at Carleton University on September 30, 2022 and displayed at the Ottawa School of Art before moving to its permanent location on the 5th floor of Dunton Tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We encourage our community to revisit CBC\u2019s reporting on the project and to visit the vamps in person in the School of Social Work to witness their beauty and reflect on the many children they represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further reading\/viewing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cResidential Schools: Community Art Project\u201d (School of Social Work): <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/residential-schools-community-art-project\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/residential-schools-community-art-project\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStitching Together Grief and Art\u201d (Carleton Newsroom, Sep 27 2022): <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/orange-shirt-day-beaded-vamps\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/orange-shirt-day-beaded-vamps\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeading project honours \u2018incredibly powerful\u2019 stories of residential school children\u201d (CBC, Sep 27 2021): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/residential-schools-215-baby-vamps-1.6180455\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/residential-schools-215-baby-vamps-1.6180455<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c350 vamps later: Woman overwhelmed by beaders\u2019 response, designs and stories\u201d (CBC, Sep 30 2022): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/beaded-vamps-chidren-residential-schools-1.6593827\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/beaded-vamps-chidren-residential-schools-1.6593827<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Social Work is honoured to be home to The Journey of the Vamp, a commemoration project developed by faculty member Deborah Young. 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