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HALIFAX
SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
URSULA JOHNSON
Traditions were challenged and myths created in Ursula Johnson's exhibition "Mi'kwite'tmn (Do You Remember)" at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax. Johnson, an artist residing in Eskasoni First Nation, Cape Breton, descends from a long line of Mi'kmaq artists. Her late great-grandmother, Caroline Could, taught her the distinct art of Mi'kmaq basket weaving.
The viewer initially walked into Museological Grand Hall, located In the centre of the large gallery space, and was confronted by a dozen spotlit wooden plinths holding up Plexiglas boxes of similar but varying sizes. The Plexiglas boxes were empty, but featured sandblasted...