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Nicole Gammie
“I liked the ingenuity that was used to get around a major issue faced by an individual, maybe thinking outside the box could help the resolution of other issue the world faces today.”
Arianna Garcia-Fialdini
"(I chose this embroidery) because it is so powerful.”
Fatima Garzan
Fatima Garzan
Fatima Garzan
Fatima Garzan
Julie Gauthier
Bahar Ghafelehbashi
"The designer disowned him, (which) inspired me to think about the parts of our humanities that we disown, we fear and then we start a fight with. So I chose this image as an invitation to face the disowned part of our humanity.”
Barbara Gilbert
“I recently left an abusive relationship. My ex collected knives. That should have been a red flag. Embroidering these knives in red thread seems appropriate.”
Barbara Gilbert
Donna Giles
“There is nothing a mother would not do to protect her children. As a mother I know that fierce instinct to protect not only my own children but all who are oppressed. Fighting for the right to live and let live. To peacefully raise all our children to be kind and loving human beings. This image spoke to my heart.”
Margaret Glew
Athina Goldberg
“Although I was only 8 years old when this photo was taken, I have benefited all my reproductive life from the rights that women at that time fought for. The anger and grief that I feel as we watch these rights being stripped away from women today is counterbalanced by the strength I see in the face of the young woman in this photograph.”
Margaret Gouin
“I read Joseph Boynton's story ‘Wenjack’ some years ago and it has stayed with me. When I was a little girl, my family always went to Kenora for holidays and my memories of those days are full of sunshine and happiness. I had no knowledge of the residential school in the area or of the conditions under which First Nations children were kept there. Some years ago I learned that the Canadian 'Indian Reserve' system was the model for South African apartheid, and I realised that the residential schools were tools of cultural genocide. As a descendant of European settlers, I feel deep shame for this--both that it happened, and that I was in ignorance of it happening. The image of a small boy who froze to death trying to return to his family continues to haunt me. Remembering Chanie Wenjack with this embroidery is a wholly inadequate act of penance.”
Barbara Green
“I have never forgotten the experience of having our teacher read a chapter by Thornton Burgess every day to us after lunch in the one-room school house I was fortunate enough to attend for 2 years - the best two years of my life. I still think of the names given to the animals - Sammy Jay, Jerry Muskrat, Grandfather Frog, and others. I learned to embroider as a teenager, and am currently embroidering a quilt top. I find embroidering redwork such a soothing and relaxing pastime. I’d be honored to participate.”
Norma-Jean Greenslade
Joan Haberman
“This pattern brought to mind the old folk song, ‘Where have all the flowers gone?’, something I’ve been singing for as long as I can recall. When I reached a certain age, I realized that the lyrics were about the ravages of war- the flowers, picked by young girls, have gone to graves of their sweethearts, young men sent to fight in wars. The theme - mother’s, wives and sweethearts, left behind to mourn and pick up the pieces -is universal and applies to wars fought at anytime, anywhere in the world.”
Philip Hare
“The recent news about the ‘discovery’ of 215 bodies at a former residential school in BC is very much on my mind.”
Philip Hare
“I'm intrigued by the concept of terror as a tool.”
Gordon Hatt
“(Embroidering this) is an opportunity to meditate on the history.”
Kimiko Hawkes
“(I chose this pattern because it is) Not to small, not to graphic, and looks easier to stitch.”
Kimiko Hawkes
Shiemara Hogarth
Michelle Holdway
“As a teacher, I endeavour to include teaching awareness of residential schools in my classroom regardless of whether or not it is part of the required curriculum. Students do not leave their time with me without having heard the stories of children of similar age to them who spent time in residential schooling.”