The city has named an artist to create the public art piece for The Nogojiwanong Project.
Michael Belmore will be heading up the project, which is a collaboration undertaken in the spirit of kinship between local First Nations, Indigenous peoples, and the City of Peterborough in recognition of the 200th anniversary of Rice Lake Treaty No. 20.
The first phase of the project was a series of interpretive panels highlighting the evolution of local treaties and inherent rights of Indigenous peoples that were installed in 2019 at the south end of Millennium Park next to the Trans Canada Trail.
Belmore’s piece for the Nogojiwanong Project, entitled “Gathering,” is expected to be installed later this fall.
It will consist of a grouping of glacial erratic boulders, carved, lined with copper, and fitted so that they sit slightly apart and seemingly radiate heat. The stones will also be embellished with the Treaty 20 Clan Totems.
Belmore is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design and completed his Master of Fine Art at the University of Ottawa in 2019.
(photo courtesy of: www.peterborough.ca)
