Talk: Amy Jo Ehman

An empty house tells a story: settlement dreams, displacement and dislocation, lives lived, hopes lost and found. Surrounded by wheat fields, the story of that house is tied inevitably to immigration schemes that cleared the land of Indigenous families to give that land to settler families from Europe and beyond. This tour examines those themes as represented by the artist Althea Thauberger and in the research of Amy Jo Ehman, our tour guide.

Bio: Amy Jo Ehman is an author of several books on aspects of Saskatchewan history, including Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens and Saskatoon: A History. Her current project is a history of wheat, an interest born in her childhood on a family farm. She collaborated with the artist Althea Thauberger, based on their shared family histories as 19th century settler families from the Black Sea region of Ukraine, within the former Russian Empire.

No registration required. Free with membership or museum admission.

This program will be in ASL and English.

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