Films on women inspired artist
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Artist Heather Shillinglaw never expected to be so moved by a film. But something asbout "Places Not Our Own," a film that chronicles the social ostracism
of a Metis family forced to live as squatters in the 1930's, touched a raw nerve.
The result was an artwork entitled "The Traveller," one of 14 emotionally turbulent works inspired by a series of films on Metis woman. "The artwork is my emotional response to the portrait of Metis woman as portrayed in the films," Shillinglaw said.
