The Estevan Art Gallery and Museum (EAGM) is gearing for its Heroines exhibit, which will feature 18 local women who actively contribute to the Energy City community.
The new exhibit is a continuation of sorts to a previous exhibit titled Estevan Women: the Dynamics, created nearly 20 years ago in 1998.
“We’re doing it as part of our legacy project; so it’s Canada 150 and we think it’s a great time to recognize the contribution of women in the community and because it is also tying into a previous exhibition, we thought it was a nice tie over with that,” said Sarah Durham, curator of collections for the EAGM.
“It works out fairly well because the exhibition will be at the art gallery from July 15 until August 26 and then it’ll be touring the community for about a year before it becomes part of our permanent collection, so it also ties into our 40th anniversary celebration.”
Durham said the locations around the city haven’t been determined yet and as of press time, she’s still trying to round up the featured women for photographs.
I full list of who will be in the exhibit should be released later in the week.
The process of selecting the local heroines involved opening up nominations to the public, beginning last November and closing earlier this month, then a jury made up of an assortment of individuals from city council representatives, a few EAGM board of directors members and others in the public voted and pared down the selections.
Durham said this method would hopefully create a diverse and unbiased voice that would allow maximum fairness in the selection process.
The idea for the exhibit came about last year when the EAGM was doing a reshowing of Estevan Women: the Dynamics and staff thought it would be a nice time to revive the idea.
