Yaahpittahsohkohto

Chataya Holy Singer

This project was a body of work involving performance, installation and a mural created from the Indigenous Art Studio 3350 Course with Jackson TwoBears.

This work reflects the response in connection to the Margret (Marmie) Hess collection at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery renamed in honor of the late Margret Hess. The creative process encompassed the making of moccasins as a symbol of renewal, the painting of buffalo hooves on a drum gifted from another student from the course, and a mural painted onto the wall of the Art Gallery. The end result of this project was Chataya wearing the completed moccasins, while singing a song to honor everybody at the exhibition opening with the painted drum, and finally installing the drum onto the center of the mural design as the finished duration of the project.