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Lionel Peyachew’s (above left, photo submitted) Roadside Attractions installation at the Allen Sapp Gallery depicts traditional aspects of Indigenous culture as being caged and inaccessible, illustrating attempts to assimilate his people into European culture. Photo by John Cairns
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The Allen Sapp Gallery is part of a provincewide art showcase taking place across the province in the summer of 2018. The exhibition is called Roadside Attractions, and it is taking place in 15 Saskatchewan communities from Cumberland House in the north to Estevan in the south. The exhibitions, organized by Dunlop Art Gallery and by partners across the province, are funded through the Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter Initiative. The various locations for the exhibitions allow for visitors to see them as a part of a road trip around the province. Each stop features exhibits from different participating artists. Selected for the North Battleford exhibition was Lionel Peyachew, an associate professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the First Nations Uni-
versity of Canada. He has taught sculpture and traditional Indian art and art history, and has produced art including a monument to missing and murdered Indigenous women in Saskatoon outside the new police station there. “It’s an honour to represent a gallery near to where I used to live, which is Red Pheasant,” said Peyachew, a member of that First Nation. In speaking to the Regional Optimist, Peyachew said the show at the gallery will include both his own sculptures and also exhibit artwork by Allen Sapp. “It’s like a two-man show,” said Peyachew. “I’m really honoured to be able to have a show with the late Allen Sapp, because he was an icon to Canadian art, or even North American art.” The theme of this exhibition is inspired by reconciliation, Peyachew said. The show “represents some of the conflicts that were happening back in the 1800s and early 1900s,” said Peyachew. He pointed to such
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