By Brian Williams, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, London Free Press Woodstock Art Gallery is seeking help expanding its permanent collection by launching a fundraiser to acquire the art of an award-winning Canadian artist. The gallery wants to raise $30,000 to add Indigenous artist Shelley Niro\u2019s Borders series \u2013 which is on display in the art gallery\u2019s lobby until Jan. 24, 2026 \u2013 to its permanent collection, director and curator Alex Hartstone said. \u201cIt’s four works and they portray outstretched hands and there’s a lot of symbolic imagery, and they reference wampum belts, which are traditional Indigenous artifacts that record traditions, histories, laws and those sorts of things,\u201d Hartstone said of Borders. \u201cIt’s kind of an exploration of relationships and agreements and that can be between individuals or nations or organizations,… <\/p>\n
By Brian Williams, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, London Free Press Woodstock Art Gallery is seeking help expanding its permanent collection by launching a fundraiser to acquire the art of an award-winning Canadian artist. The gallery wants to raise $30,000 to add Indigenous artist Shelley Niro\u2019s Borders series \u2013 which is on display in the art gallery\u2019s lobby until Jan. 24, 2026 \u2013 to its permanent collection, director and curator Alex Hartstone said. \u201cIt’s four works and they portray outstretched hands and there’s a lot of symbolic imagery, and they reference wampum belts, which are traditional Indigenous artifacts that record traditions, histories, laws and those sorts of things,\u201d Hartstone said of Borders. \u201cIt’s kind of an exploration of relationships and agreements and that can be between individuals or nations or organizations,... <\/p>\n