Curator Tour of Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience

Join Jennifer Kramer, MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest, on this virtual tour through Kent Monkman’s exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience—on view at MOA until January 3, 2021.

Jennifer Kramer guides virtual visitors through artist Kent Monkman's moving and thought-provoking exhibition, which he developed as a response to the Canada 150 celebrations. The exhibition (re)tells Canadian history through the eyes of his provocative alter-ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle—a bold, time traveling, shapeshifter who takes us on her voyage through time. Follow Miss Chief’s journey as she guides us from sickness into healing, from starvation into bounty, and from genocide to justice.

Virtual visitors tour through the nine chapters of the exhibition, excerpted from Miss Chief’s fictional memoirs, beginning in 18th century “New France: The Reign of the Beaver” to the “Urban Rez” of Winnipeg’s North End. The exhibition is a “restorying” that changes the familiar nationalist myth of British-French settlers discovering a “new world” ripe for possession and resource extraction to a counter-narrative focused upon Indigenous strength, healing, and resurgence.



Video and event credits:

Guide: Jennifer Kramer, MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest
Producer: Marie Wustner, Curator Public Programs and Engagement
Videographer, editor: Rea Saxena, Public Programs Assistant