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

2026 Eco Materials Workshop, Presented to the Critical Ecological Practices MFA students, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2025 G7 Leaders’ Summit, Kananaskis, Alberta, Delegate Spousal Program basket weaving workshop instructor, Global Affairs Canada
2025 G7 Media Showcase, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2025 Series Summer Art Workshops, Eco Weaving instructor, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB
2025 Art Attack, Métis Finger Weaving instructor, Galloway Station Museum, Edson, AB
2025 Listening in Relation Equinox Roundtable, presenter/panel speaker, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, by Branching Songs and The Only Animal

2025 Eco basket workshop instructor, Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB
2024 Visiting Artist/Guest Instructor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
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

2009-present Art Instructor, Edson, AB/remote

2007-2009 Drawing Instructor, Northern Lakes College, Peace River, AB

Artist Talks
2026 Presented to the Critical Ecological Practices MFA students, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2025 Art Gallery of St.Albert, St.Albert, AB
2025 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2024 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2024 Artist Talk and seed-sharing workshop, presented to the Community Service-Learning students, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2024 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, 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

2026 The Thread of the Wish, group exhibition, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK
2026 Wildfire, group exhibition, curated by Lara Felsing and David McGregor, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
2026 Somewhere We Have Travelled, Indigenous alumni, faculty and student exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2026 Craft Perspectives, Alberta Craft Council, Calgary, AB
2025 Schmoozy, Latitude 53 exhibition fundraiser, Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB
2025 Too Much/Not Enough, Galerie Lewis, Quebec City, QC
2025The Living Library – A Pop-Up Exhibition of Eco Poetry, part of Being Human 2025, the UK’s national festival of the Humanities, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, UK
2025 Benefit Auction Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2025 Woodland Gestures, two-person exhibition with David McGregor, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB
2025 Community Threads, Alberta Culture Days exhibition curated by Lara Felsing and assistant curated by Gabriella Heron, Red Brick Arts Centre, Edson, AB
2025 Craft Perspectives, Alberta Craft Council Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2025 land, body, sister, two-person exhibition with/curated by Gabriella Heron, Red Brick Arts Centre, Edson, AB 
2025 Kinship Ecologies, solo exhibition, Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, Alberta
2025 what we leave, what we take, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2025 Beadsoup!, Indigenous alumni, faculty and student exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC

2025 Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving Exhibition, Alberta Craft Calgary cSPACE Gallery, Calgary, AB

2025 Collective Threads, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

2025 Capsule Machine, Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB

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.
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, two-person exhibition with/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 Gallery, Edmonton, AB, and Alberta Craft Council, Calgary, AB

2024 Frybread As Fok, Indigenous alumni, faculty and student exhibition, 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, Indigenous alumni, faculty and student exhibition, 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
2022 Albirda, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton, AB

2022 Currents, Indigenous alumni, faculty and student exhibition, 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

Residencies
2025 Kapishkum – Métis Gathering Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2025 Indigenous Haute Couture Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2024 Fall Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2023 Akunumusǂitis: Ecological Engagement Through The Seasons Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, 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 Lara Felsing, Marama Salsano
 and Astra Papachristodoulou
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 exhibition publication, The Brewery Tap (University for the Creative Arts Project Space), Folkestone, UK

Collections
Harvesting Tray, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, AB

Wildfire Forest Baskets, gifted to G7 Delegates by Global Affairs Canada, 2025 G7, Kananaskis, AB
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

Private Collections
Ottawa, ON
Edmonton, AB
Calgary, AB
Toronto, ON
Montreal, QC
Vancouver, BC
New York, NY
McLean, VA
Chicago, IL
Miami, FL
San Francisco, CA
Kotei, JP
Berlin, DE
London, ENG

Recent Awards/Acknowledgments

2026 The Rewilding Arts Prize, Finalist, The David Suzuki Foundation, Vancouver, BC
2026 Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples Small-Scale Activity Grant, Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts
2026 Indigenous Arts Individual Project Grant, Recipient, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2025 Indigenous Arts Individual Project Grant, Recipient, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2024 Renee Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts, Recipient, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC

2024 Askîy Guardian Coin, Recipient, Askîy Environmental Monitoring Program, Environment and Climate Change Team, Métis Nation of Alberta

2023 Indigenous Scholars Award, Recipient, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Graduate Award, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON

2022 Prix Commémoratif Peter deMarsh Memorial Bursary, Recipient, Canadian Federation of Forest Owners, Ottawa, ON

2022 Yaxkasei (William Callaghan) Memorial Award, Recipient, Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2021 Elsie Boone Memorial Scholarship, Recipient, Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2021 Emily Carr University Academic Achievement Scholarship, Recipient, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
 

2018 Community Arts Champion Award, Recipient, CANOE (Community Arts Network of Edson), Edson, AB

Memberships
Métis Nation of Alberta

Native Women’s Association of Canada
Rupertsland Institute Student Alumni Association
Latitude 53
Alberta Craft Council
Rewilding Arts Collective
CANOE (Community Arts Network of Edson)

Upcoming Projects
2026 Shallow Breaths, solo exhibition, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC

2026 Craft 2026,group exhibition, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK 2026 Canadian Artists at La Napoule Residency, Mandelieu-La Napoule, FR
2026 TBA, Union Gallery, Project Space solo exhibition, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
2026 Wildfire, group exhibition, curated by Lara Felsing and David McGregor, Leighton Art Centre, Millarville, AB
2026 ENVIRON: Craft at the Edges of Change, group exhibition, Alberta Craft Council
2027 Similkameen Artist Residency, Keremeos, BC
2028 Heart Blown Open: Indigenous Perspectives on Community Care, curated by Nevada Lynn, Location TBD