Anishinabek citizens highlight the importance of representation – Anishinabek News

January 21, 2025

LONDON, ONTARIO — Chippewas of the Thames’ Jay Soule and Alderville’s Sara Mai Chitty recently highlighted the importance of representation during the Seeing Red: Jay Soule In Conversation with Sara Mai Chitty webinar on Jan. 12. The event was held by Words The Literary and Creative Arts Festival and Museum London to mark the closing of Museum London’s Seeing Red: Movie Posters Indigenized by CHIPPEWAR exhibition, which ran from April 20-Jan. 12 featuring a selection of Soule’s posters that satirized blockbuster movie classics with the aim of exposing and criticizing the enduring legacy of colonialism in Canada.

“I’ve been doing these sort of movie posters for more than 10 years and other than shows I’ve kind of curated and put together myself or art fairs I’ve participated in myself, I’ve had a really difficult time getting this work out into the public,” says Soule, whose artist name is Chippewar. “Traditional institutions like museums and galleries, when you tell them you’re an Indigenous artist, there’s this kind of preconception of what sort of work that you do so this has sort of blocked me in a lot of ways from getting this work out into the world.”

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