Togetherness is a collaborative, community-rooted artwork created in honour of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse people (MMIWG2S+). Artists Tracey George Heese and Justine “Tini” Stilborn worked alongside school-aged children and youth to create a visual space of remembrance, love, and solidarity.
The completed pieces, made of paper, cloth, ribbon, and metal, are combined to create dress figures, which were then arranged to form a composition evoking the Canadian flag—its red fields and central form reimagined through the dresses of the artwork. Here, the flag is transformed into a call for national accountability.
This exhibition was made possible through the RCMP Heritage Center’s Wasnokya Omnijayabi Project, in partnership with the Place of Reflection Committee. This project was generously funded by the Government of Saskatchewan’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls+ Community Response Fund.
