KC Adams stares down stereotypes against aboriginal people

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Caption: Winnipeg-based artist KC Adams discusses Perception, her portrait series challenging racial slurs routinely directed at Canada's aboriginal people. (KC Adams)

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Visual artist KC Adams(external link) will soon be plastering racial slurs all over Winnipeg — but she won't let them go unchallenged. Her portrait series Perception(external link) examines the barefaced stereotypes routinely directed at Canada's Aboriginal Peoples. Each of her subjects is cast in two lights: one a sombre portrait featuring a stereotype, and the other their radiant reality.
The Winnipeg-based artist joins guest host Jelena Adzic to talk about the citywide roll-out of her head-turning images, and Macleans Magazine's controversial decision to dub the Manitoba capital "Canada's most racist city".
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