Sherry Farrell Racette |
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Sherry has been active in the community for over fifteen years as a cross-cultural educator and teacher of Native studies and art. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba in 1974 and a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Regina in 1988. She has held positions as curriculum consultant for Saskatchewan Education and sessional lecturer at the University of Regina. Sherry serves as Chairperson of the Saskatchewan Native Economic Development Board of Trustees, and Trustee of the Regina Public School Board. She is presently assistant professor in the Department of Education at the First Nations University of Canada. Farrell Racette's commissions include paintings for a number of posters and publications. Among these are "The Flower Beadwork People: People Place and Stories of the Métis", published by Saskatchewan Education (1986), and "The Flower Beadwork People" published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute (1992). Selected exhibitions of her work include solo exhibitions, "Call of the Clan Mothers" shown at the Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society (Regina, 1991) and "The Flower Beadwork People" at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, 1992). In 1990 she was co-recipient of a Canada Council Explorations Grant to research the traditional arts of the Métis. |
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