The exhibition highlights rarely seen original glass plate negatives from the archives of early 1900s Black Manitoban photographer, William “Billy” Beal and photographs of everyday Black life in and around Amber Valley, Alberta during the 1920s to 1960s from the Frank B. Jamerson fonds. The exhibition also includes new bodies of work by contemporary lens-based Black Prairie artists, whose works present necessary dialogues, questions, and reflections on personal histories, a changing climate, and collective experiences. The exhibition will present a newly created short film by filmmaker Cheryl Foggo about the historical Black community of rural Saskatchewan, known as the Shiloh People. BLACK PRAIRIES provides space for communal grounding and reflection on the ongoing and ever-expanding continuum of Black life in the Prairies.