‘They Had No Time to Say Goodbye’ Exhibition

Photocredit: Jason Collin

Collage Arts are thrilled to support Rose Marie Prins to facilitate 2 workshops for artists, leading to a multimedia exhibition.

Through our* workshops, we invite artists from the world over to participate in They Had No Time to Say Goodbye, a multimedia installation about missing and murdered indigenous women in North America. #MMIW #MMIWG

During the workshops, participants draw portraits of North American Indigenous women to incorporate into the installation. Some may then choose to tape their drawings onto a window, tape an x-ray over it, and scratch their portrait onto the x-ray which will be added to the installation. Those who choose not to scratch portraits on x-rays are invited to donate their drawings of Indigenous women to the project.

*“Our” refers to my two Diné (Navajo) collaborators, Patricia Yazzie Olson, Roberta Begaye and me.

Rose Marie Prins PhD, Biography

Artist Rose Marie Prins’ mixed-media paintings, sculptures and multimedia installations have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums, cultural centers and galleries throughout North America. She has work is in public, corporate, and private collections in the US, Canada and Europe and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. For over two decades she has taught drawing, sculpture, painting and art appreciation in colleges and universities in the United States. Currently, Prins is traveling in Europe conducting art workshops to educate participants about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (#MMIWG).

The Exhibition will be up and available for the public to view this weekend:

Friday 4th October 2024 – 5-8pm

Saturday 5th October 2024 – 3-8pm

Sunday 6th October 2024 1-7pm