Portraits of survivors to be featured at Humboldt gallery

By Nicole Goldsworthy  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A upcoming exhibit at the Humboldt and District Gallery will feature portraits of Holocaust and residential school survivors. They didn’t know we were seeds by Saskatoon artist Carol Wylie, opens Tuesday, March 5. Wylie has been creating art for 30 years, focusing solely on portrait and figuration. She said inspiration for the portraits started in 2016, when she listened to a Holocaust survivor speak about his experiences in a death camp during the Saskatoon Holocaust Memorial service. “I was struck anew by the extent of abuse a human being can endure at the hand of another,” she said on her website. Wylie decided she needed to find a way of honouring the stories and memories of Holocaust survivors and used her artform to…

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