The Witness Blanket is large‐scale art installation and is made from hundreds of items reclaimed from survivors and their families, residential schools, churches, government buildings and traditional and cultural structures across Canada.
The process of gathering these objects and their Stories took artist Carey Newman and his team from coast to coast to coast.
The documentary film Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket shares that journey.
Acknowledgement
Picking up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket is presented by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in partnership with Carey Newman and Media One.
The Witness Blanket was created in response to a call for Commemoration Projects issued in 2010 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.