Creative Minds: Materiality And Indigenous Sovereignty
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 7-8pm
Join us for a conversation with Mi’kmaw artist and lawyer, Cheryl Simon! Learn about Simon’s approach to Indigenous material culture through her perspective as a Mi’kmaw e’pit [woman], and how traditional Mi’kmaw art forms relate to Indigenous and collective rights.
Throughout the conversation, Cheryl will be weaving a basket with techniques passed down to her by her uncle, Elder Francis Jadis, who has been making baskets for 60 years. As an artist with a deep connection to quillwork and basketry, Simon sources and processes her own materials from start to finish, exercising her Mi’kmaw rights of cultural material harvesting.
Image and basket by Cheryl Simon.
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