Exhibit Walk-through with Heidi McKenzie

Monday, April 21, 2025
5:00 - 6:00 pm

Join us at Gallery 1C03 for this special event!

Toronto-based artist Heidi McKenzie is returning to Winnipeg to make a film about her ground-breaking exhibition Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories. While she is here, she will lead a walk-through tour of her show in Gallery 1C03.

Reclaimed is a mixed-media ceramic-based exhibition that illuminates the power and courage of Indo-Caribbean women, past and present. Through a feminist lens, the exhibit narrates the little-known histories of Indo-indentureship in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Heidi's semi-abstract sculptures and archival and contemporary photographic portraiture on ceramics illuminate the visual narrative of women's indo-indentured jewelry as symbolic of strength and resistance. The exhibit is an act of reclamation and decolonization.

Heidi McKenzie is an award-winning artist informed by her mixed-race Indo-Trinidadian/Irish-American heritage. She uses ceramics, photography, digital media, and archive to forefront themes of ancestry, race, migration and colonization, as well as the body and healing. Heidi has exhibited internationally in Europe, Asia, Oceania and North America and her art has been collected by the Royal Ontario Museum, Global Affairs Canada, and the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, among others.

An opportunity to help build the University's art collection

Gallery 1C03 is raising funds to purchase one of Heidi's remarkable sculptures, entitled Crescent Moon, for the University's permanent art collection so that we can display it on campus for all to appreciate for years to come.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CRESCENT MOON

If you would like to contribute towards the purchase of this artwork, donations may be made through the University of Winnipeg Foundation website -- select the fund keywords "art collection" -- or by contacting Gallery Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson. Donors will receive a charitable tax receipt for their gift.