The Water We Call Home: Re-presencing Indigenous women’s connections to fish, water, and family around the Salish Sea.
Exhibit Details
The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society is honoured to host The Water We Call Home: Indigenous Women’s Connections to Water, Fish and Family Around the Salish Sea. This exhibit is a continuation of a lifetime of research by Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene artist Rosemary Georgeson, and emerges from her decade-long collaboration with Dr. Jessica Hallenbeck. The exhibit is co-curated by Georgeson, Hallenbeck, and Kate Hennessy and features a series of films about the gatherings of an advisory circle of six Indigenous women, as well as new works in photography, video, and sound by Kali Spitzer, Richard Wilson, and Georgeson. It was originally displayed at the Yellow House Art Centre on Galiano Island has been brought across the water to continue sharing the stories of resistance against colonial fishing policies and reconnection with fish, family and water along the Salish Sea.
The exhibit was installed at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site in June 2023 and will remain on display into 2025.
Stay tuned
We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the exhibit curators in 2024 by offering more programming centered around this exhibit. Please check back here and on our social media for updates!
For more information on the overall project, curators and participants, visit The Water We Call Home website.
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