A Parkland artist is making her mark in the province.
Val Vint from Winnipegosis is one of three artists whose works have been chosen to be installed at The Forks in Winnipeg.
Vint’s contribution is a piece called “Education is the new Bison”. The installation features a 20-foot-tall Bison constructed of replicas of books and videos that Vint hopes will help usher in a real understanding of what reconciliation means.
“I think it’ll be a good resource for anybody who wants to learn the real history, and once the real history is known, then people will have a different view and probably be helpful in changing this broken path into something positive,” said Vint. “I wanted this to be a positive way of talking about things, about introducing things, this is a gentler, kinder way to get through to making a change”.
“Education is the new Bison” will be unveiled in the spring of 2020.
