"Salinlahi: Generations" by Ursula Handleigh and Mary Escano
Open November 5 to December 19, 2026.
Strathcona County is pleased to present Salinlahi: Generations, a new exhibition by Toronto artist Ursula Handleigh and Edmonton artist Mary Escano. In Salinlahi: Generations, Handleigh and Escano draw from maternal histories, ancestral knowledge, photography, weaving, and material experimentation to create contemporary points of connection to Filipino culture. The artists work between memory and making, using research and intuition, revealing identity as an ongoing process of interpretation rather than recovery of maternal stories.
“Through reinterpreting Filipino cultural traditions such as woven mats (banig) and Binakol weaving, the artists invite visitors to explore how cultural identity is not simply inherited but continually redefined through lived experience,” says Kris Miller, Gallery@501 Curator.
The public is invited to attend a special artist talk and reception on Saturday, November 21 at 1 PM at Gallery@501 (#120, 501 Festival Avenue). This event and admission to the gallery are free.
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