Artist Talk: Bonnie Devine                                                   

Registration Not Required

May 13, 2022 | 6 PM | Studio One, Chatham Cultural Centre | FREE | All Ages

Governor General Award-winning artist Bonnie Devine will be giving an artist talk detailing her experience in researching and developing her exhibition La Rábida, Soul of Conquest: An Anishinaabe Encounter.

La Rábida is a Franciscan monastery overlooking the mouth of the Rio Tinto near the small town of Palos de la Frontera on the Atlantic coast of Spain.

The development of La Rábida exhibition began in 2015 and 2016, when Devine visited Spain intending to examine Columbus from an Indigenous perspective.

When she arrived at the monastery, her research evolved into a broader investigation of the religious justification for the seizure of land and the subjugation of the Indigenous populations in the Americas.

Using source material gathered from Europe and the Americas, such as the 1493 Papal Bull Inter Caetera – the Doctrine of Discovery, the Nueva Corόnica y Buen Gobierno by Guáman Poma from 1615, and the current town seal of Whitesboro, N.Y., Devine documents the impact of the Columbus landing.