Stories We Tell approaches storytelling as a part of our everyday lives — the stories created when we listen, learn from, and share our history and culture, both personal and collective, with friends and relatives. The desire to share stories is part of human nature, and this exhibition explores the different ways artists, whether from ancestors or through myths, experience and create stories, either re-telling history or recounting new stories from their own experience.

Stories We Tell features artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank collection by artists from diverse communities across the country and highlights the importance of interactions with different stories to build our own.