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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For Immediate Release
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Woven Together
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">at Kelowna Art Gallery</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Woven Together<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk518899526"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">July 14 to October 7, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk518899526"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk518899526"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Featuring Ursula Johnson, Meagan Musseau, Meghann O’Brien, and Tania Willard</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest curated by Jaimie Isaac.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">July 13, 2018 – Kelowna, BC:</span></b><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal"> A new group exhibition opens this Saturday at
the Kelowna Art Gallery. It is entitled </span></em><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Woven Together</span></em><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal"> and it features works by</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
Indigenous artists Ursula Johnson, Meagan Musseau, Meghann O’Brien, and Tania Willard.<em><span style="font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Each of these artists’ work explores basket weaving as a way to examine interwoven narratives and histories. These artists consider weaving a
reflexive practice where the makers’ hands create interlaced actions through learned, contemplative, and repetitive processes that bind layers of knowledge and material.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Representing nations from Coast Salish Territory in British Columbia to Ktaqmkuk Territory in Newfoundland,
<i>Woven Together</i> entangles practices, unravelling intergenerations and intertribal memories of matriarchal kinship, knowledge, and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Woven Together</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is curated by Jaimie Isaac, Curator of Indigenous
and Contemporary Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ursula Johnson comes from a long line of Mi’kmaw artists. She has a background in photography, drawing, textiles, and theatre. In 2017, she won
the prestigious Sobey Art Award, for her work as an emerging artist in the contemporary Canadian art scene.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Meagan Musseau is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq and French ancestry from the community of Curling in the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland
and Labrador— Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory of Mi’kma’ki. She works with customary art practices and new media, such as beadwork, basketry, land-based action and installation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal">Meghann O’Brien is a Northwest Coast weaver from the community of Alert Bay, British Columbia.</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<em><span style="font-style:normal">She works with an innovative approach to the traditional artforms of basketry, Yeil Koowu (Raven's Tail) and Naaxiin (Chilkat) textiles.</span></em>
<em><span style="font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal">Tania Willard, of Secweìpemc and settler heritage, is a visual artist and
</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MFA candidate at UBCO Okanagan. She
<em><span style="font-style:normal">has participated in several public art projects, and recently has been working on her
</span></em>collaborative project entitled <i>BUSH gallery</i>, a conceptual land-based gallery grounded in Indigenous knowledges and relational art practices.<em><span style="font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Woven Together</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is on view from July 14 to October 7, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An opening reception on Friday, July 13, at 6 pm will feature a performance by The Salish Sisters: Tracey Kim Bonneau and Cease Wyss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An Artists’ Panel will be held on Tuesday, July 17, beginning at 6 pm. It is moderated by Jaimie Isaac and will include a discussion with artists
<span style="background:white">Meagan Musseau, Meghann O’Brien, and Tania Willard. This program is free to the public.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water Street in downtown Kelowna. For more information about current exhibitions, public programming
or special events, please visit the Kelowna Art Gallery online at www.kelownaartgallery.com or call 250-762-2226.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Tania Willard,
<i>Gut Instincts</i>, 2018, digital mural on adhesive textile, laser cut silk and satin ribbon, copper welding rods, wood stumps. Courtesy of the Artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Meagan Musseau,
<i>nukumi, will you sit with me as I learn to weave?</i> 2018, split vinyl basketry, synthetic vinyl and neon pink flagging tape, 6 x 6 x 9 in. Courtesy of the artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Ursula Johnson,
<i>Basket Weaving</i>, 2015. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Kim Anderson.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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