New art piece in Lacombe acknowledges roots of the land and reconciliation
A new art piece in Lacombe will hopefully be seen as a gesture of reconciliation, an official with the municipality says.
‘Miweyihtowin’ — meaning ‘affinity for one another’ — was unveiled Saturday during the city’s 8th annual Culture and Harvest Festival.
Located on the northwest corner of the traffic circle at College Avenue and C&E Trail, it was designed by two senior students from Mamawi Atosketan Native School in Ponoka.
Tessa Potts and Eileen Firingstoney were originally going to create the piece for a school project, but the pandemic led to an opportunity for it to be a commissioned work as well as summertime employment. With help from welding instructor Michael Willing, they each put in over 150 hours to complete it.