Until 13 October 2024
RAMM commissioned critically-acclaimed artist Michelle Williams Gamaker to produce new work to celebrate RAMM’s ‘Untold Stories’ theme. The Silver Wave film took inspiration from objects in the World Cultures collection, particularly the Arctic region.
The film tells the story of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman from Alaska who became the sole survivor of a doomed British expedition to Russia’s Wrangel Island in the Arctic in 1921. Extracts from Ada’s diary provide the dialogue to the film, read by Iñupiat poet and writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen, from the Ugiuvamiut tribe.
An education pack about The Silver Wave is available for teachers.
