Rhonda Snow is an Anishinabe artist, and Ojibway Pony nay, all pony advocate. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Rare Breeds Canada for preserving the Ojibway Horse Breed – Rhonda talks about Native Ponies and Larry Aiken. She is a knowledge keeper who tirelessly creates visual art and educational material for others, especially the younger generations.
Kicking off Blue Sky Horse Radio Forever with this great woman who inspires others by following her heart and soul. Thank you Rhonda. The National Arts Centre [NAC] Orchestra and NAC Indigenous Theatre presented: “The Spirit Horse Returns.” Rhonda also does Equine Assisted Learning which she has adapted to relay her intrinsic view of humans and horses.
Music featured is Rhonda’s choice: Blackberry Smoke – One Horse Town.
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Kitchener, ON – While the neighbourhood surrounding Kitchener’s newest library branch in still under construction, inside the building, a 15m long wall sculpture has been installed and unveiled, which according to a city press release “explores and honours connection to the earth and to each other, but also the traditional sharing of knowledge within Indigenous communities.”
The artwork, a collaboration with Anishinaabe Indigenous artists Isaac Murdoch and Nyle Johnston is named Wintertime Stories and is a sprawling mixed medium sculpture made with acrylic and wood and features pictographs and iconography. The press release notes the sculpture is “rooted in the Anishinabek storytelling tradition, intersecting cultures and life in the northern woodlands”.
This show features interviews with Wintertime Stories co-creator Nyle Johnston and Eric Rumble, the Coordinator, or Arts and Creative Industries at City of Kitchener, who helped facilitate the selection process for the artwork.
