In Person
Yorkton
Art Exhibition
Arts
The Future is Ancestral -Opening
Exhibition Opening
Schedule of Events for Saturday, October 25th, 2025
Sharing Circle 1:15pm
Community Feast 6:00pm
Opening Reception 7:30pm
Artists:
Robyn Adams / Torrie Ironstar / Rihkee Strapp aka Miskwa the Mad Clown Prophet / The Time Travel Collective - Joel Richardson, Nyle Johnston & Virginia Eichhorn
Advisor: Kokum Brenda Dubois.
Curated by Melanie Monique Rose
Exhibition text:
Indigenous folks tend to agree that time is not linear. Perhaps it looks like a wave hitting the shoreline, leaving and returning…? Does time look like a sunflower, a fiddlehead or a pinecone — or the curls in your hair? Spiralling, whorling and looping like the fingerprints on our hands? Storytelling is how we make sense and relate to time, to the present, past and future. The Future is Ancestral is a gathering of visual storytellers, story keepers, portal builders and truth seekers. Some of these artists ask, “If we haven’t gone through truth yet, how can we have reconciliation?” They pull out stories and strings, undo and weave, unravel myths, false and pseudo histories. They relate to the past and consult the Elders to understand the present, to imagine futures. Like water in its nonlinear temporality, it is at once ancestral and present in the here and now. “Rivers, those beings that have always inhabited different worlds, are the ones that suggest to me that if there is a future to imagine, it is also ancestral, since it’s already present.”
– Ailton Krenak, Ancestral Future
The Future is Ancestral exhibition at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is curated by Melanie Monique Rose with the support of Advisor Kokum Brenda Dubois and Artistic Director Doreen Girard. The artists are Torrie Ironstar, Robyn Adams, Rhikee Strapp aka Miskwa the Mad Clown Prophet and the Time Travel Collective - Nyle Miigizi Johnston, Virginia Eichhorn and Joel Richardson.
Schedule of Events for Saturday, October 25th, 2025
Sharing Circle 1:15pm
Community Feast 6:00pm
Opening Reception 7:30pm
Artists:
Robyn Adams / Torrie Ironstar / Rihkee Strapp aka Miskwa the Mad Clown Prophet / The Time Travel Collective - Joel Richardson, Nyle Johnston & Virginia Eichhorn
Advisor: Kokum Brenda Dubois.
Curated by Melanie Monique Rose
Exhibition text:
Indigenous folks tend to agree that time is not linear. Perhaps it looks like a wave hitting the shoreline, leaving and returning…? Does time look like a sunflower, a fiddlehead or a pinecone — or the curls in your hair? Spiralling, whorling and looping like the fingerprints on our hands? Storytelling is how we make sense and relate to time, to the present, past and future. The Future is Ancestral is a gathering of visual storytellers, story keepers, portal builders and truth seekers. Some of these artists ask, “If we haven’t gone through truth yet, how can we have reconciliation?” They pull out stories and strings, undo and weave, unravel myths, false and pseudo histories. They relate to the past and consult the Elders to understand the present, to imagine futures. Like water in its nonlinear temporality, it is at once ancestral and present in the here and now. “Rivers, those beings that have always inhabited different worlds, are the ones that suggest to me that if there is a future to imagine, it is also ancestral, since it’s already present.”
– Ailton Krenak, Ancestral Future
The Future is Ancestral exhibition at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is curated by Melanie Monique Rose with the support of Advisor Kokum Brenda Dubois and Artistic Director Doreen Girard. The artists are Torrie Ironstar, Robyn Adams, Rhikee Strapp aka Miskwa the Mad Clown Prophet and the Time Travel Collective - Nyle Miigizi Johnston, Virginia Eichhorn and Joel Richardson.
2025
Oct 25
1:00 PM
— 9:00 PM
Cost: Free
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Deaf / Hard of Hearing
- Safe and Inclusive Space