These exhibitions are curated, impactful, and come with ready-to-go education packages and workshop ideas designed to deepen engagement in your community.

Here’s a summary of the exhibitions and how they can work for your venue/community — followed by how to book, and how to build in education/workshop activities to maximise impact. Here is a video that includes more images and information on each exhibition.

The Exhibitions

1. Keep Going by sharai mustatia
   Themes: healing, intergenerational trauma, identity, belonging (Métis/Romanian background).
   Education/Workshop Idea: Consider pairing with a photo-based workshop (analogue or 35 mm) exploring family stories, roots, reclaiming identity. Invite participants to create their own “handed-down” imagery.
2. Nisto (curated by Melanie Monique Rose)
   Themes: three-strand braid metaphor of mind/body/spirit, Indigenous roots (Cree word “nisto = three”), diaspora, land/water/ancestry.
   Education/Workshop Idea: Hold a community weaving or fibre-arts workshop, linking the idea of “three strands” to local themes—physical/mind/spirit or land/water/sky. Plan a guided tour of the exhibition with curator Melanie Monique Rose.
3. Wóknaga by Dave Pelletier
   Themes: Indigenous knowledge, woodland school style, storytelling through animals and figures.
   Education/Workshop Idea: Offer a story-art workshop: invite participants to bring their own story (or a family/ancestral story) and render it visually in a stylised form inspired by the Woodland School. Incorporate an artist-led “meaning of symbols” session.
4. Invisible Winds: Stories You Can Not See – Journeys Toward Wholeness (various Saskatchewan artists)
   Themes: mental health, grief, trauma, visibility/invisibility of experience, healing through narrative.
   Education/Workshop Idea: Host a creative-writing + art-making workshop: participants respond to the theme of “invisible winds” (what we don’t see but feel) through mixed-media pieces. Could collaborate with mental-health services or local wellness networks for community talk. Plan a guided tour of the exhibition with curator/artist Dean Bauche.

Why These Exhibitions Work for Your Community

• Each comes with education guides and curriculum-links, making them ideal for schools, community groups, or gallery-led programmes.
• They support thoughtful, timely and socially engaged topics—identity, trauma, Indigeneity, mental health—aligned with many institutional goals around community-engagement and art-for-impact.
• OSAC handles many of the logistics of the touring exhibition—crating, shipping, insurance etc.
• The booking process is clear: arts councils select shows, confirm dates, receive kits with materials, plan events.

How to Book

1. Check out the Booking Form Visual Arts 2025
2. Select your preferred exhibition(s) and available dates (include preferred years).
3. Complete the form and return it to OSAC, confirming venue, dates, any supplementary programming you plan (workshops/tours).
4. Once confirmed, you’ll receive a contract, complete, sign and return to OSAC.
5. One month before the show, you’ll receive the exhibition kit (includes condition reports, social media templates, Education Guides, Care & Handling Information, Install Instructions, and other resources).
6. Promote the exhibition and any associated programming (opening reception, artist talk, workshop) well ahead of time to maximise audience and impact.

Building Your Programming: Education & Workshops

• Use the education guides provided with each exhibition to structure school visits, youth programs, or gallery-walkthroughs.
• Custom-workshops / talks / residencies: Embed hands-on sessions (e.g., photography, weaving, story-art, mixed-media) linked organically to the exhibition’s themes.
• Consider partnering with local educators, artists, mental-health professionals or Indigenous community leaders to deepen the resonance of the programming.
• Document and evaluate your programming: surveys, video and photos, reflection circles, comment books – these are useful for reporting, grant-writing and future planning.
• Use arts-education funding (e.g., the Visual Arts Program Grant) to support additional events like talks or workshops.

Next Steps

If you’re interested in booking, fill out the attached form and return to Zoe Schneider Zoe@osac.ca.
If you have any questions about these exhibitions, or how to embed the educational/workshop components, feel free to reach out.