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July 27, 2015
Queen’s researcher Amber White gets Aboriginal students to utilize canvas to tell the story of their lives.
“May I borrow your story?”
This was the question asked by Queen’s researcher Amber White when she travelled to Sudbury for a research project. The Master’s of Education student encouraged eight Aboriginal youth in the N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre to explain why they left high school before graduation, using nothing but paint, a brush, and a blank canvas.
The result is Speaking Through Acrylic: Potholes, Loss and Dreams, an art exhibit created by those eight Aboriginal students that delves deep into their lives and doesn’t pull any punches. From bullying, to teenage pregnancy and loneliness, the eight canvasses are stark and unforgiving.
The show has been mounted in The Studio, located in the Queen’s Faculty of Education.
Read More: http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/unique-viewpoint
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