Wampum belts are powerful. While they represent instrumental cultural objects that materialize and contextualize words, for Indigenous Peoples’ wampum are also physical representations of laws and agreements. Wampum belts are made from shell beads derived from seashells that were exchanged from the earl...
Hanky Panky by Kent Monkman, 2020. Scroll down to choose to view the uncensored image. Earlier this month, Cree artist Kent Monkman’s painting ‘Hanky Panky’ was unveiled on social media, intending to highlight the “Canadian (in)justice system” and the violence against Indig...
The Gchi Dewin Festival brings national Indigenous and non-Indigenous presence to northern Ontario’s Anishinaabe territory and Parry Sound region. The annual storytelling festival, now in its fifth year, happened on November 28-30, 2019. The festival is free to the public and takes place at the Charles...
Image: Carl Beam (Canadian, 1943 – 2005). Sitting Bull and Whale [from the Columbus Suite] (detail), 1990. Etching on Arches paper. Gift of Douglas A. Hendler. Whenever I move or visit a new city, the first place I go to is the art gallery. It’s how I orient, and in a way, how I make ...
Ickwecic Matcike Ickinikcic | Image source Meky Ottawa The 29th Annual Montréal First People’s Festival presents Atikamekw artist, Meky Ottawa’s exhibit: Nehirowisidigital until September 29 at La Guilde, 1356 Sherbrooke St W. Ottawa is a self taught artist who specializes in video, installation and ill...
Art by Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch | Image credit: Shannon Webb-Campbell Two-Spirit Man/Two-Spirit Woman Call Home the Salmon w/Help, a collaborative installation, honours the power of art, action, and ceremony. Featuring work by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour and Dayna Danger, Christi Belcourt, and Isaa...
Reconciliation is an ongoing conversation, and requires an unlearning to break apart colonialism, and relearn the pre-contact, pre-colonial gaze and history of Turtle Island. The latest exhibition at Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Whose Home and Native Land is a collaborative effort between curatorial staff...
Mnidnoominehnsuk (2018) uses 54,000 glass Delicas and is created by Montéal based Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams| Photo Credit: Mike Patten Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams unveils Mnidnoominehnsuk (spirit berries), a Delica beaded geometric piece that explores the traditional and contemporary aspects...
Swimming Bear by Timootee Pitsiulak The Art Gallery of Ontario is presenting its first ever Inuit curated exhibition in the gallery’s largest space from June 16 – August 12. The show is called Tunirrusiangit, meaning ‘the gifts they gave us’ in Inuktitut, and showcases the works of Inuit artists K...
“Everything – the plants, insects, winds, stars, rocks, animals, us – is a giant web of pure spirit. Nothing is separate from anything else. The spirit world surrounds us at all moments and is present in all things.” – Christi Belcourt In both her art and her activism, well-known Michif artist Christi B...
