Make a Faceless Doll with Us!
Community members of all ages are invited to visit the Montrose Cultural Centre to make a Faceless Doll!
We invite you to join us in hearing the story behind the Faceless dolls and creating one of your own in the spirit of friendship and reconciliation. Together, we will make approximately 55 dolls, which will be displayed at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie during the Faceless Doll exhibition until February 16.
Make a Faceless Doll Event
Thursday, January 23
5 – 8 pm
Teresa Sargent Hall
Located within the Montrose Cultural Centre
9839 – 103 Ave, Grande Prairie, AB
This initiative is a collaboration between the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie and the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre.
About the Project:
The Faceless Doll campaign is a project of the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre’s Pitone Youth Program. It was originally led by Knowledge Holder Natascha Okimaw and Elder Loretta Parenteau-English and is based on Loretta’s personal story and cultural teachings. Loretta, a member of the Piikani Nation and a longstanding Grande Prairie community member, had a collection of dolls made by her father as a child, that were lost to her just before she was forced into the residential school system. It was her vision that these dolls be made to honour both the victims and survivors of the residential schools, with the goal of creating 215 to be eventually entered into a permanent installation in the Traditional Healing Garden at the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre.
Learn more about the exhibition.