Education
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC – MFA
Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion Design, Vancouver, BC – Diploma
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC – BFA
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AU – Emily Carr University of Art + Design Student Mobility Program
Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB – Art & Design Diploma
Professional Experience
2024 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Artist in Residence, Omaha, NE
2024 Visiting Artist/Guest Instructor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2023 Akunumusǂitis: Ecological Engagement Through The Seasons Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2021-2023 Research Assistant for Dr. Julie Andreyev, Branching Songs, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2022 Teaching Assistant, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2021 Teaching Assistant, Summer Institute for Teens, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2017-2020 Arts & Culture Coordinator, Red Brick Arts Centre & Museum, Edson, AB
Recent Artist Talks
2024 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,Omaha, NE
2024 University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2024 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2024 Grande Yellowhead Public School Division Annual Indigenous Education Event, Jasper, AB
2023 Artist Talk & land-based material workshop, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2020 Alberta Culture Days, Galloway Station Museum, Edson, AB
Recent Exhibitions
2025 Beadsoup!, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2025 Innovative Threads, Alberta Craft Calgary cSPACE Gallery, Calgary, AB
2025 Collective Threads, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Capsule Machine, solo project at Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB
2024 Wildfire, curated by David McGregor, Lara Felsing, and assistant curated by Gabriella Heron, Red Brick Arts Centre & Museum, Edson, AB
2024 Recital with a Forest: Branching Songs, Xwayxway (Stanley Park), Vancouver, BC
2024 Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving Exhibition, Alberta Craft Council Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2024 Listening to the Land, U of A FAB Gallery, solo exhibition curated by Christina Battle, Edmonton, AB
2024 Touching/Reading, curated by Astra Papachristodoulou, 2024 Malmö Artists’ Book Biennial, Victoriateatern, Malmo, SE
2024, ArtMart, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
2024 The Show, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2024 Minutiae, Alberta Craft Council Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB, and Alberta Craft Council, Calgary, AB
2024 Frybread As Fok, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2024, 2023, 2022 Alberta Culture Days, featured artist, Edson, AB
2023, Hauntings, The Brewery Tap (University for the Creative Arts Project Space), Folkestone, UK
2023 Branching Songs, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC
2023 A Distant Presence, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2023 Ephemeral Stream, with Julie Andreyev for 1000 Year Theatre, Roberts Creek, BC
2023 WITH Trees, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2023 Sacred Fires, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2023 Exhibition with Gabriella Heron alongside Piikanikoan with Ira Provost: Living Under A Blackfoot Sky, A Winter Count, Red Brick Arts Centre & Museum, Edson, AB
2023 Albirda, Alberta Craft Council, Calgary, AB, and 2022 Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB
2022 Currents, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
2022 State of the Practice, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2020 Endless Summer: Alberta Culture Days solo exhibition, Galloway Station Museum, Edson, AB
Recent Publications
2024 Fire Season III book, edited by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese
2024 To Feel the Earth as One’s Skin, edited by Astra Papachristodoulou, Lara Felsing and Marama Salsano
2024 Lara Felsing and the delicate nature of response: an essay by Christina Battle
2024 Touching/Reading,2024 Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial, edited by Astra Papachristodoulou
2023 Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, edited by prOphecy sun, Winter 2023 Issue
2023 Pandemic Stories, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2023 Hauntings, visual poetry publication and exhibition at The Brewery Tap (University for the Creative Arts Project Space), Folkestone, UK
Collections
Dancing for Our Sisters (painting), Native Women’s Association of Canada, Gatineau, QC
The Return of the Buffalo (painting), Métis Crossing, Smoky Lake, AB
Medicine Wheel Blanket, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC
Recent Awards/Acknowledgments
Renee Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
Askîy Guardian Coin, Askîy Environmental Monitoring Program, Environment and Climate Change Team, Métis Nation of Alberta
Indigenous Scholars Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Prix Commémoratif Peter deMarsh Memorial Bursary, Canadian Federation of Forest Owners, Ottawa, ON
Yaxkasei (William Callaghan) Memorial Award, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
Community Arts Champion Award, CANOE (Community Arts Network of Edson), Edson, AB
Upcoming Projects
2024/2025 Witnessing Fireweed, a longitudinal and asynchronous participatory project co-imagined by Christina Battle and Cecily Nicholson. Participating artists: Céline Chuang, Alanna Irene Edwards, Lara Felsing, and S F Ho.
2025 Indigenous Haute Couture Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2025 Listening in Relation, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, by Branching Songs and The Only Animal
2025 Wildfire, curated by David McGregor, Lara Felsing, and assistant curated by Gabriella Heron, Jasper Community Habitat for the Arts, Jasper Art Gallery, Jasper, AB
2025 what we leave, what we take, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2025 Kinship Ecologies, solo exhibition, TBA
2025 Woodland Gestures, two-person exhibition with David McGregor, TBA
2026 Wildfire, curated by David McGregor, Lara Felsing, and assistant curated by Gabriella Heron,TBA

RECENT PROJECTS
TO FEEL THE EARTH AS ONE’S SKIN
INNOVATIVE THREADS: CONTEMPORARY WEAVING
LISTENING TO THE LAND EXHIBITION REVIEW
LARA FELSING AND THE DELICATE NATURE OF RESPONSE: AN ESSAY BY CHRISTINA BATTLE
LISTENING TO THE LAND: CBC RADIO ACTIVE INTERVIEW
TOUCHING/READING (MALMÖ ARTIST’S BOOK BIENNIAL 2024)
BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS & CREATIVITY RESIDENCY
LEARNING FROM THE LAND: GYPSD ANNUAL INDIGENOUS EDUCATION EVENT PRESENTATION