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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ENT - WAG Group photo of Cree artist Kent Monkman (centre), with Dr. Stephen Borys, WAG CEO and Jaimie Isaac, curator of Contemporary & Indigenous Art, WAG, at the opening of Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Friday. Monkman's works of art on the plight of Indigenous Peoples, are on the walls behind. them. Note: The art work on the left side of photo is called The Deposition, from the series Urban Res, 2014, (depicts a person suffering from trauma at an actual location in Winnipeg's north end), is now permanently a part of the collection of the WAG by a gift from an anonymous donor. See story. Sept 27th, 2019