For many years Jake Mol has taught a watercolour painting course at the Haliburton School of The Arts. Each summer he brings his students out to paint pictures of the farmstead that is part of the Haliburton Highlands Museum in Glebe Park. Jake thought that there should be a sculpture that connected the farmstead to the Sculpture Forest and presented the Haliburton Sculpture Forest Committee with the concept for the Homesteaders. Using recycled materials—bits and pieces of tools and hardware that might have been found around a farmstead—Jake created a whimsical family that might have built and lived in the buildings across the way. The stand facing their “home” holding up paintings that reflect their past and the present.
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Land Acknowledgment
We would like to acknowledge that we are located on ancestral lands, the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabe covered by the Williams Treaties. This area, known to the Anishinaabe as “Gidaaki”, has been inhabited for thousands of years – as territories for hunting, fishing, gathering and growing food.
For thousands of years Indigenous people have been the stewards of this place. The intent and spirit of the treaties that form the legal basis of Canada bind us to share the land “for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow”.
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297 College Drive
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
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(705) 457-3555
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