Downstream Where the Waters Mix

A Season of Our Grandmothers Healing Journey

New Westminster Museum’s newest exhibition, titled Downstream Where the Waters Mix a season of Honouring Our Grandmother’s Healing Journey, is a multi-year movement. Curated by lead visionary artist, Nadine Spence, the project connects artists and Indigenous communities across B.C. through culture, arts and ceremony to restore relationships between generations with the water, lands and wild salmon. Featuring bentwood chests and boxes, woven blankets, carving, art, and regalia, this exhibition focuses on personal, family, and community healing journeys in a safe and respectful space that does not oppress the truth and realities of Indigenous Peoples of the past or in the present day.

We seek to disrupt the current narrative and uplift Indigenous histories.