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2 fun days drawing at Chapman’s Gas Bar Holiday Market.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
2 fun days drawing at Chapman’s Gas Bar Holiday Market.
Kikiskinow Âpahcikân …We are all here learning together, an exhibit of the process artwork from the Critical Land Studies & Relations course I taught at Lakehead University - Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism during the winter. On display in the Community Room at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.
October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Kikiskinow Âpahcikân …We are all here learning together, an exhibit of the process artwork from the Critical Land Studies & Relations course I taught at Lakehead University - Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism during the winter. On display in the Community Room at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.
Julie Cosgrove and my project, A Record of Time centres around McVicar Creek’s wild, hybrid, and built spaces. Our installation at CoLab Gallery is from January 16 - 23, 2026. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario for support.
#arecordoftimeproject
#arecordoftimeproject
September 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Julie Cosgrove and my project, A Record of Time centres around McVicar Creek’s wild, hybrid, and built spaces. Our installation at CoLab Gallery is from January 16 - 23, 2026. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario for support.
#arecordoftimeproject
#arecordoftimeproject
My “Look Inside Yourself” project at the 2025 Kenora Science Carnival. 30 trillion cells work together to help each mammal survive! Miigwetch to Christian Chapman for the painting, Science North - Northwest for supporting interdisciplinary learning, and everyone who celebrated cells!
September 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My “Look Inside Yourself” project at the 2025 Kenora Science Carnival. 30 trillion cells work together to help each mammal survive! Miigwetch to Christian Chapman for the painting, Science North - Northwest for supporting interdisciplinary learning, and everyone who celebrated cells!
The “Be a Good Ancestor” project at the Wake The Giant festival brought stringing beads into a bracelet as a wearable reminder to think about the Seven Grandfather Teachings. Miigwetch to our fun crew and everyone who stopped to bead, and chat.
September 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The “Be a Good Ancestor” project at the Wake The Giant festival brought stringing beads into a bracelet as a wearable reminder to think about the Seven Grandfather Teachings. Miigwetch to our fun crew and everyone who stopped to bead, and chat.
My Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Summer Institute in-progress, completed, and interactive work, Silent Witness. Remembering Colony Creek by making inks from what’s now visible with plants and water collected from wild, hybrid, and built environments.
August 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Summer Institute in-progress, completed, and interactive work, Silent Witness. Remembering Colony Creek by making inks from what’s now visible with plants and water collected from wild, hybrid, and built environments.
Plug In IGA Summer Institute hanging out at the Gillies Quarry with 450 million year old Tyndall limestone.
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Plug In IGA Summer Institute hanging out at the Gillies Quarry with 450 million year old Tyndall limestone.
Some highlights of Plug In IGA’s 10-day Summer Institute led by Louise Witthöft and Rodney LaTourelle. Through explorations, conversations, and collaborations we explored the poetic of Colony Creek, a lost waterway that ran into the Assiniboine River.
August 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Some highlights of Plug In IGA’s 10-day Summer Institute led by Louise Witthöft and Rodney LaTourelle. Through explorations, conversations, and collaborations we explored the poetic of Colony Creek, a lost waterway that ran into the Assiniboine River.
Good Alchemy at the Great Lakes Student Conference in Red Rock. We talked about being a good future ancestor, played with handmade inks, & learned about the Indigenous place names of Great Lakes communities, waterways, and landmarks.
June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good Alchemy at the Great Lakes Student Conference in Red Rock. We talked about being a good future ancestor, played with handmade inks, & learned about the Indigenous place names of Great Lakes communities, waterways, and landmarks.
Exploring unsmoked, home tanned, and factory processed moose leather at the 6th annual Fort William First Nation Spring Hide camp. Many hands and many ages are transforming reclaimed hide pieces into a collective artwork.
May 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Exploring unsmoked, home tanned, and factory processed moose leather at the 6th annual Fort William First Nation Spring Hide camp. Many hands and many ages are transforming reclaimed hide pieces into a collective artwork.
Congrats to the Explore Indigenous Studio Practice students in the Lakehead University Department of Visual Arts for receiving the LUSU award for their untitled collaborative fibre arts work in the 2025 Annual Juried Exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.
March 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Congrats to the Explore Indigenous Studio Practice students in the Lakehead University Department of Visual Arts for receiving the LUSU award for their untitled collaborative fibre arts work in the 2025 Annual Juried Exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.
How can we take the teaching of the Vernal Equinox forward? How can we authentically connect with our individual and collective responsibilities within the world? I hold hope that springtime will awaken some much needed renewal and rebirth in our stewardship for each other and for the planet.
March 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How can we take the teaching of the Vernal Equinox forward? How can we authentically connect with our individual and collective responsibilities within the world? I hold hope that springtime will awaken some much needed renewal and rebirth in our stewardship for each other and for the planet.
Grade 7 students at Seventh Fire Junior High connecting with Indigenous knowledge and using STEAM approaches to make birch bark basket inspired containers. Thanks to @vibearts.
March 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Grade 7 students at Seventh Fire Junior High connecting with Indigenous knowledge and using STEAM approaches to make birch bark basket inspired containers. Thanks to @vibearts.
Shimmering catkins.
March 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Shimmering catkins.
We call this “A Record of the Time”. It’s a transitional record using ephemeral inks from plants and water collected along a waterway flowing into Lake Superior. A project with Julie Cosgrove. Today’s ramblings.
March 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
We call this “A Record of the Time”. It’s a transitional record using ephemeral inks from plants and water collected along a waterway flowing into Lake Superior. A project with Julie Cosgrove. Today’s ramblings.
Students at Seventh Fire Junior High get to experience making a simple container by repurposing old LP album covers and using a birch bark basket pattern taught to me by the Elder, Freda McDonald. Thanks to @vibearts for supporting ways for youth to make mindful discoveries through creativity.
March 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Students at Seventh Fire Junior High get to experience making a simple container by repurposing old LP album covers and using a birch bark basket pattern taught to me by the Elder, Freda McDonald. Thanks to @vibearts for supporting ways for youth to make mindful discoveries through creativity.
Learning to see and seeing to learn. I’m grateful for this Thunder Bay community through the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
March 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Learning to see and seeing to learn. I’m grateful for this Thunder Bay community through the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
We really do have to look inside ourselves and show the kindness of good stewards and ancestors.
February 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We really do have to look inside ourselves and show the kindness of good stewards and ancestors.
All living things are cells! “Look Inside Yourself”, my Woodland Art adjacent project in Thunder Bay. A cell could be taken home or animate Christian Chapman’s painting. This evolving #STEAM #communityengagedart project with Science North Northwest debuted in September 2024 in Kenora.
February 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
All living things are cells! “Look Inside Yourself”, my Woodland Art adjacent project in Thunder Bay. A cell could be taken home or animate Christian Chapman’s painting. This evolving #STEAM #communityengagedart project with Science North Northwest debuted in September 2024 in Kenora.
“Be a Good Ancestor” hands. 3/3. #beagoodancestor
February 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“Be a Good Ancestor” hands. 3/3. #beagoodancestor
“Be a Good Ancestor” hands. 2/3 #beagoodancestor
February 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
“Be a Good Ancestor” hands. 2/3 #beagoodancestor
“Be a Good Ancestor” hands. 1/3 #beagoodancestor
February 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Be a Good Ancestor” hands. 1/3 #beagoodancestor
At 2025 Northern Ontario Youth Climate Action Summit hosted by Science North - Northwest, 250 youth made bracelets as reminders to “Be A Good Ancestor”. Cassandra, Eden, the Science North team & I had fun at Westgate CVI with a #STEAM project.
February 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
At 2025 Northern Ontario Youth Climate Action Summit hosted by Science North - Northwest, 250 youth made bracelets as reminders to “Be A Good Ancestor”. Cassandra, Eden, the Science North team & I had fun at Westgate CVI with a #STEAM project.