RESIDENCIES

Photo: Abigaile Edwards, Banff Centre 2025
2025 Kapishkum: Métis Gathering, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, AB
A view of my studio workspace, showing works in progress pieces made from raku, forest castoffs and plant-dyed fabric.

2025 Indigenous Haute Couture, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, AB (Collaboration with Gabriella Heron)
land, body, sister is an interdisciplinary collaborative project between myself and Métis artist Gabriella Heron. Clothing made from upcycled second-hand plant medicine-dyed fabrics and repurposed remnants is stitched together to honour our connection between body and land.

2024 Fall Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Hand-stitched blankets dyed with pine needles, wildfire charcoal and fireweed from Alberta Wildfire EWF031, which burned near the community I live in 2023. Exhibited at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Open House/Open Studios, Fall 2024.

2023 Aknumustiǂis: Ecological Engagement Through the Seasons, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, AB
Harvesting Tray Family, made with castoffs from the forest where I live and fabric and hide remnants from family and friends. The harvesting trays I make are used to dry plant medicines, and this collection of different sized trays represents the transfer of tradition and knowledge down from generation to generation.

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


