Heading into final week, Walking With Our Sisters still teaching
Leah Garven has had co-workers who have lost loved ones, and she never knew until now.
“There’s people that I work with every day that I had no idea have lost a sister or a mom or an aunt,” Garven, the director of galleries for the City of North Battleford, said Monday. “And it’s not just one family member. In some cases, it’s two or three. So we’re all learning.”
The travelling art installation Walking With Our Sisters is educating and inspiring youth and adults, as it enters its final week in North Battleford. The exhibition consists of vamps, unfinished moccasins to represent the unfinished lives of missing and murdered indigenous women across North America.
“We’ve got pages and pages and pages of guest books signed, and binders full of art where the message is hitting home with the youth,” she said. “The adults are particularly touched. Even myself, I continue to learn.”