05/27/2026
Indigenous Perspectives: Bridging Traditions & Contemporary Art: Art$ Funding
DATE Friday, June 5, 2026
TIME 2:30 - 4:30 PM
FREE
REGISTER: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/indigenous-perspectives-artdollar-funding
PLACE Art Gallery of Regina, 2420 Elphinstone St.
Experience Indigenous Perspectives, sponsored by Casino Regina, as we explore Art$ Funding—a painfully funny exhibition revealing the realities of artists' lives beyond the canvas.
Artists Christopher Campbell Gardiner, Glen Johnson, Milton Lim, and Patrick Blenkarn shed light on the overlooked challenges of securing grant funding. Far from "free money," their work playfully and poignantly exposes the struggles, disappointments, and hard work behind every artwork, exhibition and organization. Validate your inner artist at Johnson’s Artistic Licence Bureau, compete for creative grants in Lim and Blenkarn’s culturecapital card game, and get an ironic chuckle from Campbell Gardiner’s works that encase painful reminders of failure and rejection as a way of letting go of anger, embarrassment, and disappointment.
Art$ Funding also recognizes the essential role of funding bodies, sponsors, and donors, whose support empowers individuals and galleries to present works that question, critique, and expose the realities of our funding systems. Their contributions help safeguard freedom of expression, ensuring that creative voices are not limited by the preferences of politicians or powerful individuals, but remain open, diverse, and independent.
Enjoy a free exhibition tour, an open discussion, and a hands-on activity led by Christopher Campbell Gardiner, whose art has long transformed pain and shame into healing. Contribute your thoughts to a collaborative artwork and experience the soothing, restorative process of repetitive stitching or obscuring objects beneath multiple layers of paint in a supportive, social setting.
Snacks and guidance from an elder are provided. Join us Friday, June 5, 2:30 - 4:30 PM at the Art Gallery of Regina, 2420 Elphinstone St. All are welcome—no experience needed, just curiosity!
CONTENT WARNING
Please note: Artistic Licence Bureau contains references to violence and bullying.
This artwork is a work of parody; these words are not genuine threats against any person or persons.