Fragile and Fractured
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I painted ‘Fragile and Fractured' while deeply affected by the justice denied for Tina Fontaine and Colten Boushie. It shattered my hope and made me see the systems I trust as fractured and broken. How could a young 15 year old in foster care end up lost and dead, and a young boy looking for help, seemly, murdered? Reconciliation is about restoring fractured relationships and challenging mindsets that need to change. There needs to be accountability for the harm inflicted by the justice system, policing, education, child and family services and healthcare systems.
Patience and time are needed to reverse systemic racism.

Jeanette Luchese is a first generation Italian-Canadian creating in the disciplines of drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, poetry and when so moved, transcribing results to sound. A graduate of School of Design and Visual Art, Georgian College and Sheridan College School of Design, Luchese is an award winning artist residing in Innisfil Ontario,  exhibits internationally. Luchese creates  intuitively with no preconceived intentions allowing one mark to lead to another in a fluid meandering. [email protected]
www.jeanetteluchesestudio.co 
Fragile and Fractured, Acrylic paint on pine panel 24” x 24”

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Call to Action #83​ 2nd Round

Eight Indigenous and Eight Non-Indigenous Artists’
Quest for Truth and Reconciliation 2nd Round. 

Quest Art School and Gallery , Midland
Curatorial Statement, Jill Price.

Quest Art was very honoured to present the Call to Action #83 Artist Collective second iteration of their project to audiences in North Simcoe. Exhibiting in conjunction with a larger community project entitled From Food to Monument: Northern Retellings, their exhibitions not only directly answer the Call to Action # 83 which states: We call upon the Canada Council for the Arts to establish, as a funding priority, a strategy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to undertake collaborative projects and produce works that contribute to the reconciliation process”, the process taken up by the group also offers up a model exemplar of what collaboration, reflection and respectfulness might feel, look and sound like as we move forward together to arrive at equitable representation and consensus across different fields of study and work. I was particularly struck by the care and consideration given to each work. Beyond the powerful imagery and concepts brought forward through personal stories of Truth and Reconciliation, the media, material and arrangement of content evokes a level of intimacy and concern that transcends the work beyond its scale and form. Positioned around the gallery in a circle in relation to the order in which the works were passed from one artist to the next, the viewer is gifted with the opportunity to enter into physical and  philosophical spheres where a vision for a different future resides.
JILL PRICE Curator Quest Art School and Gallery, 333 King St. Midland, ON. L4R 3M7 705 526.ARTS www.questart.ca

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The History
of Round #2, 
Exhibition Dates 

1.  January 13, 2018 - September 6, 2018,  We created the Round #2 process.  
2.  October 13 2018 Private Reveal at Joanna's House 
3.  October 26, 2018- January 5, 2019:  Quest Art Gallery, Midland. Reveal with 2 Pipe Carriers.  
4.  January 5, 2019-September 2019:  Rested at Joanna s house.
5.  September 2, 2019- November 15, 2019: Waterloo, Luther College.
6.  November 15, 2020- October 3, 2020.:  Sunlife Insurance, Waterloo. Called by Brenda Porter (education director of Waterloo Sunlife)   to educate the staff on TRC Calls to Action.  
7.  March 13, - October 3, 2020: Covid locked Sunlife down and sent employees home to work from home. The show was locked safely in   their vault and fully ensured til further notice. 
8.  September 2020,  The vault was opened and Brenda Porter offered to make canvas carrying bags for each piece of Round #2.
9.  October 3, 2020:  The images came home to Mary Lou's house.  
10.  October 29, 2020 St. Paul United Community Gallery

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2021
The virtual reveal was videoed at the service and uploaded to the church YouTube for thousands to see,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC92m3XyN8BDw7dAwauKupYw
There were 3 Chiefs (Ted Williams current Chief Rama, Lorraine McCrae present councilor and former Chief, and Jeff Monague, Pipe Carrier, Knowledge Keeper and former Chief Beausoliel First Nation). Senator Gewn Boniface was presenting as well.  There were about 20 parishioners in the church too.  It was streamed live and then loaded to YouTube as " Third Sunday in Advent: Joy.
Did my best to represent each of you with your own words 

Article: https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/local-artists-inspired-to-go-deeper-with-truth-and-reconciliation-for-show-at-st-pauls-3193875