TOURING EXHIBITIONS

The Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery develops professional and well thought out travelling exhibitions that tour provincially and nationally using work from their collection and other galleries. For more information about these exhibitions, please contact: Jennifer McRorie @ 1- 306-692-4471 or curator.mjmag@sasktel.net

Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils (OSAC) travelling exhibitions tour up to 24 communities for 3 years. Exhibitions are developed and curated from submissions to the annual call for proposals, adjudications held throughout the province, public and corporate collections, and partnering institutions. For more information contact 1-306-586-1250

Dave Pelletier: Wóknaga

The exhibition Wóknaga1, Nakoda for "He Tells His Own Story"2, features paintings by Métis, Nêhiyawak/Nakoda/Anishinaabe/Scottish artist, Dave Pelletier, of môso-tâpiskan3, now known as Moose Jaw. Working within a Woodland School style, Pelletier honours Indigenous intergenerational transfer of knowledge through storytelling within these canvases, while offering his own imagined narratives that play out through the graphic and colourful compositions of animals and figures of Turtle Island. Inspired by the work of Norval Morriseau, Pelletier’s compositions, of stylized, abstracted forms, bold colours and crisp, black outlines and energy lines, offer narratives that speak to the artist’s own search for traditional knowledge and his journey to place himself and connect with his Indigenous cultures.

1. Pronounced WOKE-nah-gah in Nakoda.

2. Translated by Nakoda speaker, Matthew Spencer, May 12, 2024.

3. Pronounced moh-so-TAHP-skun in nêhiyawak (Cree).

Tour Schedule:

  • May 31 – September 1, 2024: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK

  • June 1 – 23, 2026: Shurniak Art Gallery, Assiniboia, SK

  • October 1 – 23, 2026: Gallery Works and The Third Dimension, Melville, SK

  • November 1 – December 23, 2026: Sherven-Smith Art Gallery, Melfort, SK

  • January 1 – February 23, 2027: Alex Robertson Public Library, La Ronge, SK

  • September 1 – 23, 2027: Community pARTners Gallery, Yorkton, SK

  • October 1 – 23, 2027: Biggar Museum and Gallery, Biggar, SK

  • November 1 – 23, 2027: Brooks Hall, Hudson Bay, SK

  • April 1 – 23, 2028: Gallery on 3rd, Watrous, SK

  • May 1 – June 23, 2028: Grand Coteau Heritage & Cultural Centre, Shaunavon, SK

  • September 1 – October 23, 2028: Station Arts Centre Cooperative, Rosthern, SK

  • November 1 – 23, 2028: Central Park Library/Arts Centre, Nipawin, SK

  • December 1, 2028 – January 23, 2029: John V. Hicks Gallery at the Margo Fournier Arts Centre, Prince Albert, SK

Storied Telling:
Performativity & Narrative in Photography

Catherine Blackburn, Lori Blondeau, Xiao Han,
Mariam Magsi, Meryl McMaster, Laura St. Pierre

The exhibition, Storied Telling, features photographic works by Canadian artists, whose images present as lens-based performance. The photographs reflect a performative nature, taken as video stills or documentation of performance art or presented as elaborate figurative compositions within settings that border on the fantastical or are imagined recreations of historic scenarios. In their adornment and positioning within their environments, the subjects of the photographs become powerfully iconographic. The resulting images are rife with story, reflecting diverse narratives that are poetic, political, surreal, spiritual, or perhaps even mythic; stories that inform and speak to cultural and diaspora identities that are constantly producing and reproducing themselves anew through transformation and difference.

Tour Schedule:

  • February 7 – April 27, 2025: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK

  • September 1 – 23, 2025: Council Chambers, Leader Town Office, Leader, SK

  • December 1, 2025 – January 23, 2026: Alex Robertson Public Library, La Ronge, SK

  • February 7 – May 16, 2026: Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, SK

  • September 1 – October 23, 2026: Sherven-Smith Art Gallery, Melfort, SK

  • November 1 – 23, 2026: Brooks Hall, Hudson Bay, SK

  • February 1 – 23, 2027: John V. Hicks Gallery at the Margo Fournier Arts Centre, Prince Albert, SK

  • March 1 – April 23, 2027: Grand Coteau Heritage and Cultural Centre, Shaunavon, SK

  • November 1 – December 23, 2027: Station Arts Centre Cooperative, Rosthern, SK

  • April 1 – June 23, 2028: Weyburn Art Gallery, Weyburn, SK

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