Galt Museum to present new exhibit “Recollecting Home”
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LETHBRIDGE – More than 60 community members have contributed their ideas and choices to a new exhibit opening Jan. 31 at the Galt Museum called “Recollecting Home.”
“We wanted to include a range of different voices and experiences,” says Galt Curator Aimee Benoit. “We worked with close to 60 community participants, including an ESL class from Lethbridge College.”
The purpose of the exhibit is to elicit memories of what “home” means to different people. Several objects including a rotary wall phone from the 1960s, a Rogers Golden Syrup container from the 1930s or 40s, and a handmade cigarette silk quilt from the 1920s or 30s.
Cindy Baker, chose the quilt from the Galt archives and says, “Quilting is known traditionally as not only a very domestic pursuit, but a very feminine one. Collectible cigarette silks, designed to be collected and sewn into quilts, were produced by tobacco companies as a gendered way of promoting their products to a new market… I see these quilts as a surprisingly humorous and beautiful symbol of the ways that people have asserted their freedom from expected societal roles.”
