Featured Image: Teri Greeves, NDN Art (2008) Radical Stitch is an extraordinary survey exhibition of hundreds of thousands stitched beads, containing billions of seed beads in the 101 pieces of Indigenous artwork. In fact, it spans 101 beadworks by 44 First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists from across C...
Edited by Jaime Black-Morsette. Highwater Press (2025). Fifteen years after the beginning of the REDress Project, visionary Red River Métis activist and artist Jaime Black-Morsette brings together memories, stories, and art in the anthology REDress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence (Highwater Pres...
Given the current political climate and boiling tension rising between Canada and the United States, I was anxious travelling to Los Angeles, California, for AWP 2025, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, gathering at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Like many folks, I was not sure it was...
A winter chill grips Cross Lake First Nation, a remote Indigenous community north of Winnipeg. As snow blankets the landscape, children gather in a nearby building, bundled in winter coats, their cheers filling the air. They are watching two female wrestlers battle it out in a vibrant blue ring – profes...
Featured Image: Partial view of Another Dream, a multi-media installation featuring Herd by Douglas Walbourne-Gough and Returning by Deantha Edmunds. Visual design and creation by Erienne Rennick. Photo credit: Jane Walker Indigenous artists and writers are leading a cultural revival and gaining momentu...
Image Credit: Protected Spectrum (painting) Artist: Avis Blackbird Birds Flutter When the snow coats the branches and ground They think the hidden birds are leaves Until the flicker of the wind reveals the concealed convocation Gatherings and pow wows we rally Raising resilience Hibernating until the wo...
All photos by George Hupka When award winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard, from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory was younger, she was taken to visit a buffalo ribstone outside of Regina, where she saw boulder petroglyphs that have existed for thousands of years. It was an experience th...
Featured Image: Bre Johnson/BFA.com “BalletCollective offers a pathway into the art form, for both artists and audiences alike. It’s not a one-way street, however; for our artistic collaborators, the entire exercise is meant to engage them in the work of another art form, necessarily evolving thei...
Photos by Stoo Metz Photography Mi’kmaw playwright, poet and ecologist shalan joudry’s Winter Moons stokes the embers of a contemporary dance theatrical show by honouring ancestral survival through Mi’kmaw legends and star stories at Neptune Theatre co-presented with Prismatic Arts Festival in Halifax,...
All Photos courtesy of Figure 1 Publishing Canada’s largest ocean watershed begins in the Hudson Bay region. Its pulsing waterways are like veins stretching across Ontario and beyond, intersecting and gathering strength as they flow through dense forests and wetlands. The water moves through populated u...
