‘Grey Owl and His Descendants’ exhibit opening soon

WKP Kennedy Gallery
News Release

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The WKP Kennedy Gallery and the Temagami Community Foundation are pleased to announce the Opening Date of the Angele Egwuna Project at the Temagami Train Station on Friday June 1st beginning at 2:00pm with a Curator’s Talk and Historical Reflection at 5:00pm by Arlington Hoffman (Artist and Curator) and Douglas Mackey (Regional Historian).

The Project was first exhibited at the WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay in the summer of 2006, and is traveling to Temagami to mark the 100th Anniversary of Archie Belaney’s first visit to the area. To provide additional exhibition space, two railcars have been renovated and are situated just beside the Temagami Train Station. The exhibit will be on display in the North Room in the Train Station and in the two railcars until October 15th, 2007.

This exhibit examines the genesis of the persona of Grey Owl (Archie Belaney) who was “the best known Canadian author and lecturer in his day”. The exhibit is of great value to the Northern Ontarians, to Aboriginal people in the area and to the living descendants of Grey Owl in that it finally casts the historical spotlight upon the Anishinaabe culture, the Ojibway language, and the individuals who taught this northern legend the survival skills necessary to live in the Great Northern Forest . The Angele Project focuses on Grey Owl’s first wife, Angele, and her role in the making of one of Canada ’s first conservationists.

Friday June 1st marks the official opening of the Angele Project in Temagami, and kicks off a summer of events and activities around the art exhibit including school and bus tours, a historical symposium, a media night of films featuring Grey Owl, and summer youth activities to name a few. For more information on the Angele Project please visit the official website at: www.angeleproject.com.

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