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The Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award is an original piece of artwork created in 2005 by Saskatchewan artist Joe Fafard.
Fafard wanted the award’s sculpture to contain a universal meaning, so he incorporated animal, vegetable and mineral. The bronze statue features a raven holding the sun in its beak, perched on a potato on top of a rock.
Fafard says it goes back to the legend that the raven stole the sun and gave it to the world. “It seemed like a fitting legend and worked well for our own history and our own activities here in Saskatchewan.”
He used a potato from his own garden to create the mold for the sculpture.
“There seemed to be an imprint of an arrowhead of the potato, so that seemed like a good omen,” says Fafard.
Joe Fafard
untitled, 2005 (2005 Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award)
Bronze