Join us to celebrate and learn about First Nations and Métis cultures.
Join visual artist Vanessa Hyggen for a presentation on her art, which focuses on issues such as land conservation, sovereignty and MMIWG2S.
Vanessa is a Canadian artist of Woodlands Cree and Norwegian ancestry. She is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and her community is nemepith sipihk (Sucker River). She holds her Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Saskatchewan.
Vanessa is interested in utilizing memory, tradition and themes of nature in her work. Land conservation and land sovereignty are at the heart of her work, with her painting and beadwork focusing on the richness of the land, and in turn, the threats to the land. Vanessa has worked with the Indigenous Art Collection in the Government of Canada, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Manitoba and the Toronto Metropolitan University’s Research Fashion Collection. She has also designed a MMIWG2S tribute and awareness bus shelter for Saskatoon Transit. Her work can be browsed and purchased on Etsy.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Speakers & Special Events | Reconciliation | Performances | Indigenous Spotlight | Dance | Art |
TAGS: | Indigenous Spotlight |
The Alice Turner Library replaced the smaller Sutherland Branch in December 1998. It was named after Alice Turner McFarland who was a library employee for 37 years and Saskatoon Public Library's chief librarian from 1981 to 1989. The first library in Canada to be built to the standards of C-2000 construction, Canada's environmental building code, the Alice Turner Library was expanded to double its original size in 2013.