Shantell Powell
The Scream by Kent Monkman. https://www.kentmonkman.com/ #ResidentialSchools #Genocide #RCMP #CatholicChurch #kidnapping #OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliationDay #IndigenousArt #KentMonkman
Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman is a Cree artist who is widely known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience - the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences - across a variety of mediums

Kent Monkman
Sep 30, 2023 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadMy Eyes Are Dim đź‘“Oct 1, 2023

Thank you @Shanmonster - such a powerful work.

If you don't know that this painting was made by a Cree artist who spent the first five years of his life on a reservation, you are losing a lot of the story. It's important to know that.

And that he listened to every single one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's testimonies before he did the paintings

(MaryLou Driedger - author, teacher, and tour guide at Winnipeg Art Gallery when the painting was on display there)

Show threadShantell PowellOct 1, 2023
@myeyesaredim I was lucky enough to see an enormous collection of his artwork in Toronto several years ago. This was one of them. Some of my friends modeled for some of his other works.
Show threadMy Eyes Are Dim đź‘“Oct 1, 2023

Was it this one? @Shanmonster

In Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience [a 2017 exhibition] The Scream was part of “Chapter V: Forcible Transfer of Children,” where it hung in a room with black walls.

The entrance to the gallery space featured toys and crafts made by students at the Grouard Residential School circa 1925... The walls were lined with askotâskopison (traditional cradle boards) crafted by mothers for their babies.

https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kent-monkman/key-works/the-scream/

The Scream, 2017

Kent Monkman’s The Scream—which derives its title from The Scream, 1893, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944)—references the horrors of the residential school system.

Art Canada Institute - Institut de l’art canadien
Show threadShantell PowellOct 1, 2023
@myeyesaredim I can’t remember. I think it was at UofT around that time.
Show threadCanisiusOct 2, 2023
@Shanmonster Ein Bild, das auf den Kindermord in Betlehem anspielt. (Mt 2) Jetzt mit vertauschten Rollen: Kirchenleute entreiĂźen den verzweifelten MĂĽttern ihre Kinder.