By Matt Kelly

Call for artists in response to oil spill

Sep 16, 2016 | 6:00 AM

A call has been sent out to artists affected by the Husky oil spill to help create an exhibition.

The Chapel Gallery in North Battleford is putting out a call to artist to create pieces and artistic work as a response to the oil spill in late July. The pieces will be put into an exhibition called As Long as the River Flows.

Curator and Manager of Galleries for North Battleford, Leah Garven said artists are able to speak through their work and create pieces to represent the spill and its effects.

“Artists often can speak to the events that happen in our lives and have a deep connection to the land and to environmental concerns. It’s a way that we as artists can speak on social issues,” Garven said.

Garven said she saw how much of the area the oil spill affected and decided to partner up with the Mann Art Gallery in Prince Albert, where there are also plans for the exhibition to be housed.

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“This is a good chance for indigenous and non-indigenous artists to work together,” Garven said. “This is Treaty 6 territory and the treaties are binding, a legal contract as long as the rivers flow and that was the reason for the title of the project.”

The deadline for submissions is Oct. 15, 2017 and the exhibition will be unveiled in 2018 or 2019.

“The last time we had a call to artists we had probably about 55 to 60 different artists. I’m hoping that there will be lots of submissions and that’s why we allowed for one year to allow some of that dialogue and artistic process to happen,” Garven said.

Garven added the final plan of where the completed exhibition will be showcased hasn’t entirely been decided yet, but it will be at the Chapel Gallery and hopefully also at the Mann Art Gallery in some form.

Interested artists can send submissions in to the Chapel Gallery.

Matt Kelly is battlefordsNOW’s town municipal affairs and community reporter. He can be reached at mkelly@jpbg.ca or tweet him @mattjkelly2.