#hopeandhealingcanada Art Installation by Tracey-Mae Chambers

The Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum & Community Centre was honoured to host Tracey-Mae Chambers, Métis Encaustic Sculptor and Artist behind the #hopeandhealingcanada project, as she installed her artwork in the Museum’s Bogarttown Schoolhouse on Tuesday night.

This installation will encourage discussion on the subject of decolonization in spaces that have traditionally only presented a colonial viewpoint.  Stouffville is committed to reconciliation and we thank Tracey-Mae Chambers for sharing this important installation with us.  The installation will remain open at the Museum through December 6. 

Tracey-Mae Chambers threads connections between people, communities, and the environment. With this work, the Artist hopes to spark meaningful conversations surrounding reconciliation and decolonization.

Themes of hope and healing drive Chambers’ work as she symbolically reconnects a fractured society with tangled webs of red yarn. The colour red represents blood, passion, anger, courage and love.

#hopeandhealingcanada invites visitors to engage with the idea of connection, asking how communities can move forward to heal and support one another through traumatic and life-altering events.

#hopeandhealingcanada will travel to hundreds of sites across Canada and no two installations are alike. At the end of the Stouffville installation, Chambers will collect the red string to use in her next exhibition to continue this conversation further.

To learn more about Chambers and the #hopeandhealingcanada project, visit: #hopeandhealingcanada at traceymae.com