News Digest for January 11, 2022

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Margaret Nazon, an artist from the remote community of Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., who uses beadwork to illustrate distant galaxies, will be included in a show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. CBC News reports that Nazon’s beading of the Milky Way will be presented in the Recovering Our Night Sky exhibition on light pollution. It will be placed beside a virtual image of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. The exhibition is scheduled to open in November. Nazon said the Smithsonian reached out after seeing her work. “The lady that I spoke to said to me, ‘I want you to go outside, look up at the sky and what you see up there, I want that on there, on your picture,’ so I did that,” Nazon told the CBC.