Tour participants, Creation Story Mural, Indigenous Art & Nature, September 17, 2023. Image by Johnny Wu.
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Resource ID
10982
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Open
Credit Line
Image by Johnny Wu
Date of Creation
17 September 2023
Keywords
Public Art, Indigenous History, indigenous art
Program Category
Tours
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Johnny Wu
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Tour participants, Creation Story Mural, Indigenous Art & Nature, September 17, 2023. Image by Johnny Wu.
Description
Tour participants learn about Indigenous culture and beliefs while viewing the Creation Story Mural at the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre by artist Phil Cote. Cote is a young spiritual elder, artist, activist, historian and traditional wisdom keeper from the Moose Deer Point First Nation. His mural is painted in an Eastern woodland style, and tells a creation story from the Ojibway/Anishinaabe Nation. The piece, painted on the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre on Parliament Street, demonstrates the interconnectedness of Indigenous communities with nature.
The mural was funded in part by Canadian Heritage under its Commemorating the History and Legacy of Residential Schools program and the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) under its Animating the Streets program. The mural was a part of ArtworTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art 2021-2022.