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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">For Immediate Release
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Nk’Mip children’s art presented in collaborative exhibition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Our Lives Through Our Eyes: Nk’Mip Children’s Art<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">January 19 to April 14, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">On view at the Kelowna Art Gallery and Okanagan Heritage Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">January 8, 2019 – Kelowna, BC:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
A collaboration between the Kelowna Museums Society and the Kelowna Art Gallery is bringing an important local story to life.
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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">The joint exhibition entitled
<i>Our Lives Through Our Eyes: Nk’Mip Children’s Art</i> presents over 75 works of art created by children and youth who attended the Inkameep Day School during the era of World War II. Under the tutelage of Mr. Anthony Walsh, the school, which was located
on the Osoyoos Indian Band reserve, became nationally and internationally renowned for its students’ production of art and drama based on their Okanagan identity and history.<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">The exhibition, which is divided between the Okanagan Heritage Museum and the Kelowna Art Gallery, features
graphite drawings as well as paintings on paper and hide created by the students. Archival photographs and interpretive panels will further help visitors to glimpse through the Nk’Mip children’s eyes, the complex layers of traditions and histories meeting
with new ways of life and the social and political changes of the time. Today the Inkameep Day School artworks are valued points of departure for contemporary Nk’Mip arts, culture, and education.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Our Lives Through Our Eyes: Nk’Mip Children’s Art
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">is on view from January 19 to April 14, 2019. The exhibition is organized collaboratively by the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Kelowna Museums
Society, with assistance from the Osoyoos Museum Society and the Osoyoos Indian Band. It is guest curated by Dr. Andrea Walsh, Professor of Anthropology, at the University of Victoria.<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">A number of public events and workshops have been planned in conjunction with this exhibition.<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">An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 19, from 1 to 3 pm. The reception begins at the
Kelowna Art Gallery before moving to the Okanagan Heritage Museum at 2 pm. <o: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">A series of four workshops will be presented on select Saturdays during the months of February, March,
and April. The workshops explore a variety of subjects and are titled: <i>Living the Seasons – Syilx (Okanagan) Calendar</i>;
<i>Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask</i>; <i>Our Shared History – Talking Circle</i>; and
<i>Fire and Water – Syilx (Okanagan) Relationship with the Land</i>. The workshops are open to the public, but pre-registration is required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Our Lives Through Our Eyes: Nk’Mip Children’s Art</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
is generously supported by Fortis BC, Central Okanagan Public Schools, and the Province of British Columbia. Works on loan are from the Osoyoos Museum Society, Royal British Columbia Museum, artist Taylor Baptiste, and Colleen and Richard Baptiste.<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">The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water Street, and the Okanagan Heritage Museum is located at
470 Queensway Avenue. For more information, visit them online at www.kelownaartgallery.com or www.kelownamuseums.ca respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">- 30 –</span></b><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>
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<i>Three Horses</i>, date unknown, gouache on paper. Collection of the Royal BC Museum, #15855.<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">Inkameep Day School, 1942. Mr. Walsh with his students. Edward, Jane, Harry, Caroline, Liza, Tillie, Alice,
Jim S, Noel, Bobby, Raymond. Courtesy of the Osoyoos Museum, #0111.<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">Web page:
<a href="http://kelownaartgallery.com/our-lives-through-our-eyes">http://kelownaartgallery.com/our-lives-through-our-eyes</a>
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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">For more information, or to schedule an interview please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Media Inquiries<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joshua Desnoyers
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<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marketing and Events Coordinator
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kelowna Art Gallery
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1315 Water Street
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 9R3
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">250-762-2226 ext. 305
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">josh@kelownaartgallery.com
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">www.kelownaartgallery.com
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Amanda Snyder
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<p class="Default"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Curatorial Manager
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kelowna Museums Society
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">470 Queensway Avenue
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6S7
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">250-763-2417 ext. 29
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">asnyder@kelownamuseums.ca
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">www.kelownamuseums.ca
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