What’s Held
Memory, Land, and Identity through art.
Introduction
We are all tied to the land, our memories, and our identities. What’s Held is an art exhibit exploring how we are tied to the land and where our memories intersect with places. The art works all come from Alberta artists. The Northern Rockies Museum is proud to showcase this exhibit through the Travelling Regional Exhibition Program from June 26 to July 23.
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Memory, land, and identity are all deeply interwoven, often coming together to form a sense of home or belonging; joy or grief. These gentle ties to place extend from stories across generations that overlap with our own, responsibilities to land and the histories it holds, a moment witnessed, a tracing of steps, or an urge to remember and care for a space from which we grew.
The artworks in What’s Held explore ways of memorializing, mapping, and holding onto these significant sites, keeping our stories of them alive and present, even as the landscape shifts or carries us further away from home. Beyond settler borders and monuments, the works recognize the power and importance of place, from the desire paths left over from continually wandering the same treasured areas in meadows, fields, and forests, to the objects and scents that come to represent the ways that we’ve known these spots across landscapes.
By bringing these artworks together, What’s Held is a testament to land as a layered and active site that is powerfully carried forward through the stories told and held by our individual and collective experiences.
Contact Information:
Northern Rockies Museum of Culture & Heritage
Margaret Schultz, Operations and Programming Manager
P: (780) 801-2643
E: manager@northernrockiesmuseum.com
