Espanola’s recipient of the Wall of Fame will see her initiative installed for public view in Sudbury this month.
Walking With Our Sisters is a commemorative art installation of moccasin tops created and donated by hundreds of people to draw attention to missing and murdered women.
It began in 2012 when Espanola’s own Christi Belcourt, a Métis artist and author, organized a call-out, asking people to decorate the tops of moccasins.
She was hoping to get 600 vamps.
She received 1,763 pairs with each one representing a missing or murdered Indigenous woman.
An additional 117 children’s vamps were added in May to commemorate children who never returned home from residential schools.
The exhibit opens Monday at 1:00pm at the McEwen School of Architecture at 85 Elm Street in Sudbury.
The Wall of Fame Inductee ceremony for Belcourt takes place next Thursday, January 11th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Espanola Legion.