Acadia art project on missing and murdered aboriginal women vandalized – CBC

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Oct 30, 2015

An art project representing missing and murdered aboriginal women at Acadia University in Nova Scotia has been vandalized, leaving the gallery curator in shock and wondering why it was destroyed.

Initially, around 10 red dresses hung from trees outside of the Wolfville university’s Art Gallery in September, in what the artist who created it called a visual reminder of the staggering number of aboriginal women who are no longer with us.

Now there are just two.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/aboriginal-art-project-at-acadia-vandalized-1.3295563