{"id":88678,"date":"2024-03-08T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/exhibitions\/creation-stories\/drac-art-actuel-drummondville\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:00:57","slug":"drac-art-actuel-drummondville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/creation-stories\/drac-art-actuel-drummondville\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAC \u2013 Art actuel Drummondville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;126063&#8243;]March 23 \u2013 May 19, 2024<br \/>\nOpening reception: March 23, 2024 from 1 pm to 4:30 pm<br \/>\n<em>Creation Stories<\/em>: <em>Stories of Place<\/em>: rudi aker, Michael Belmore, Calvin Morberg, Nicolas Renaud, Heather Shillinglaw, Jason Sikoak, Krystle Silverfox<br \/>\nCurators: Lori Beavis, Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Jake Kimble, Teresa Vander Meer-Chass\u00e9<br \/>\nThe Biennale d\u2019art contemporain autochtone (BACA), 7th edition<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drac.ca\/\">DRAC \u2013 Art actuel Drummondville<\/a><br \/>\nDrummondville (QC)<\/p>\n<p>The curators for this edition of the Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA) came together across Nations and territories to present works by more than 60 artists. For this 7th edition of BACA, each of the eight exhibition sites follows the overarching theme of Creation Stories. At DRAC the thematic is Stories of Place.<\/p>\n<p>The seven artists in this exhibition are each telling their own story, about their home place and the spaces of their ancestors. They are doing so in a variety of media using beads, sculptural objects, video, seal skin, carving, and paint. Those stories of place are built through observation, life experiences, and an understanding of relationality and the natural environment. Story is a practice in Indigenous culture that is sustaining, as it is the foundation of all human learning and teaching. Stories affirm experiences and ways of understanding, tell history from the people\u2019s point of view, cultivate relationships, and foster knowledge sharing.<\/p>\n<p>The Biennale d\u2019art contemporain autochtone (BACA) would like to thank its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, the Secr\u00e9tariat des affaires Autochtones, the Conseil des arts de Montr\u00e9al, Tourisme Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2012, the Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA) is a Montreal-based non-profit organization (registered in 2016) that promotes the work of Indigenous artists. The biennial is held every two years, in multiple venues, with each iteration focusing on a specific theme. The event is aimed at an ever-growing audience\u2014Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike\u2014and features both emerging and established artists. 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