New Mural at CGSHE’s Hastings Community Office by Celebrated Artist Haisla Collins

New Mural at CGSHE’s Hastings Community Office by Celebrated Artist Haisla Collins

On December 17, CGSHE’s Indigenous Cultural Safety Committee (ICSC) was honoured to welcome artist Haisla Collins and Elders Roberta Price and Glida Morgan to our Community Office for a ceremony to commemorate the mural Haisla created for our space, titled “Our Communities Rise like the Butterflies.” The ICSC commissioned Haisla, a celebrated artist of Tsimshian, Gitxsan, Nisga’a and European descent and a member of the Indigenous Women Artists Collective, to create a mural this fall. Haisla listened to our vision of a warm, welcoming image to support CGSHE’s commitments to cultural safety and humility and ongoing work towards truth and reconciliation. Her resulting creation and the thought and care she put into this work has completely transformed the space and made our Community Office, which we moved into earlier this year, feel more like CGSHE’s home. Haisla, who is also…