Beaty Biodiversity Museum

Opening Apr 25 Li bootee mishiwayitay – The Beauty of It All: Daphne Boyer. This visual artist and plant scientist presents a powerful new exhibition that weaves together Métis peoples’ traditional handwork, digital technologies, plant materials and porcupine quills. It honours Boyer’s great-grandmother Éléanore, itinerant midwife in Red River; her grandmother Clémence, a Michif-French-English interpreter who concealed her Indigenous ancestry to protect her children; and her mother Anita, self-taught naturalist and family archivist whose storytelling and research gave rise to the next generation’s celebration of Métis ancestry.