Image: Paul Walde in the field, Ma'amtagila territory
@paulwalde.bsky.social

Image: Stephanie Smith in the field, Ma'amtagila territory

Image: Kelly Richardson in the field, Ma'amtagila territory @kelly-richardson.bsky.social

Image: Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde (right) leading a movement workshop

Rande invited artists Lindsay, Kelly, and Paul because of their long histories of making art responding to our living planet’s urgent needs; their national and international reputations; and their shared ethical, principled commitment to caring for the land and respect for Kwakwaka’wakw tradition.

Images taken by Ma’amtagila Hereditary Chief Makwala Rande Cook. Views from Hiladi Village, the traditional village site of the Ma’amtagila people.

We keep asking the question: what does it mean to “breathe life to the planet”? What needs to be nurtured or challenged, learned or unlearned, built or unbuilt? And what role can art play in this process?

We share our work to honor the land and build solidarity with others. We seek connection with neighbors as well as people around the world—to co-learn and support collective work, critical imagination, and regenerative action.

We are researchers and makers: experimenting with forms of interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange, producing artworks and texts, planning exhibitions and programs, and weaving local and international cultural networks. We activate symbolic realms, linked to tangible action.

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We work for, with, and on the land. We seek to expand creative boundaries and center land-based artistry as ecological and cultural activism.