Aboriginal art show coming Thursday – Prince George Citizen

April 10, 2018

An all-aboriginal art show is showing off some of the city’s best talent, and it is also announcing the arrival of a new arts organization.

The exhibition features the work of some new visual arts talents to the public eye, in conjunction with some of the best known painters in the region. The names on the roster include Jennifer Annais Pighin, Shirley Babcock, Lynette La Fontaine, Darin Corbiere, Carla Joseph, Len Paquette, Diane Levesque-Majewski and the opening reception will have live music by Ivan Paquette. The show is produced by the Community Arts Council, but it is the efforts of a new association called the Northern Indigenous Artist’s Collective (NIAC).

One of the pieces that catches the eye quickest is a 24-inch elk hide hand-drum built by Norman Retasket adorned with an original acrylic painting of two killer whales done by Shirley Babcock (one of their previous collaborations was given as a gift to the Governor General during the gold medal hockey game at the 2015 Canada Winter Games).

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