{"id":43888,"date":"2015-11-10T02:58:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T02:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43888"},"modified":"2015-11-10T02:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T02:58:31","slug":"saskatchewan-artist-leah-dorion-features-metis-women-in-stunning-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43888","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features M\u00e9tis women in stunning exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/saskatchewan-artist-leah-dorion-features-m%C3%A9tis-women-in-stunning-exhibit-1.3309720\" target=\"_blank\">Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features M\u00e9tis women in stunning exhibit<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-08<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/saskatchewan-artist-leah-dorion-features-m%C3%A9tis-women-in-stunning-exhibit-1.3309720\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3309726.1447003331!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/leah-marie-dorion-metis-women.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Visual artist Leah Dorion said this painting is dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/APPS\/CP-NR\/release_e.asp?bgid=1665&amp;andor1=bg\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Providence\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Providence, N.W.T.<\/a> (Eric Anderson\/CBC)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Country Wives and Daughters of the Country: M\u00e9tis Women of This Land<em> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saskcraftcouncil.org\/affinity-gallery-exhibitions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Affinity Gallery<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leahdorion.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Marie Dorion<\/a> grew up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Albert,_Saskatchewan\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Albert<\/a>, proud of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> heritage, but she always wondered why M\u00e9tis women were never represented in textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Dorion&#8217;s doing something about it with her new exhibit of acrylic paintings and crafts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have created paintings and dedicated them to specific M\u00e9tis women of history,&#8221; Dorion told Saskatchewan Weekend host Eric Anderson. &#8220;These women I felt never really had a visual presence in the history books. There is a lot of oral history of these women and their contributions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <em>Country Wives and Daughters of the Country: M\u00e9tis Women of This Land<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/saskatchewan-artist-leah-dorion-features-m%C3%A9tis-women-in-stunning-exhibit-1.3309720\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features M\u00e9tis women in stunning exhibit CBC News 2015-11-08 Visual artist Leah Dorion said this painting is dedicated to Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier from Fort Providence, N.W.T. (Eric Anderson\/CBC) Country Wives and Daughters of the Country: M\u00e9tis Women of This Land at the Affinity Gallery Visual artist Leah Marie Dorion grew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,459,8,3015,25],"tags":[21842,14458,21844,21843,2721,20873],"class_list":["post-43888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-women","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc-news","tag-leah-dorion","tag-leah-marie-dorion","tag-saskatchewan","tag-saskatoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43889,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43888\/revisions\/43889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}