BUTTONS are small by design, yet vast in meaning. Across cultures and generations, buttons have fastened garments, marked status, carried memory, and travelled through hands and histories.  Buttons hold story and spirit. Remember playing in grandma's old button jar?

 

This exhibition brings contemporary art and a curated button collection to explore how everyday objects become vessels of identity, resilience, and remembrance. Rose-Marie Sherwood, a Métis artist and button enthusiast shares her button collection that spans eras and materials-metal, glass, shell alongside her mixed media artwork where creative expression finds its soul. 

 

The buttons speak not only to fashion or utility, but to trade, labour, ceremony, mourning, and adaptation. Viewers are invited to reflect on how materials shape narrative and how art becomes a form of storytelling. 

 

At the heart of the exhibition is the belief that learning can be fun, experiential and relational. Interactive elements and school-based programming encourage visitors-from the young to the elderly to engage with buttons as tactile storytellers.

 

This is an invitation: to slow down, to look closely, and to honour the stories carried quietly through time.

 

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