STORY & PHILOSOPHY

Since 2015 my work has been mainly in Indigenous arts and culture, where I was working for the Calgary Public Library’s Indigenous Services team, building relationships with artists, Indigenous-run organizations (Making Treaty 7, IRIM, Siksika youth/arts), Knowledge keepers, ceremonialists, and Elders from the Treaty 7 Nations and our neighboring Nations.  I am a practicing multidisciplinary artist here in Calgary and beyond into the greater Treaty 7 territory, I have put together Treaty 7 specific trainings that I have done for many organizations large and small (Telus management, Calgary Opera to even local Senior Residents homes) and am working with a few municipalities in protecting and acknowledging traditionally important sites, including City of Cochrane, Foothills county and working towards engaging City of Lethbridge and Pincher Creek County.

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 I have also worked and volunteered for prominent arts organizations like the Esker Foundation, Contemporary Calgary, Arts Commons, CADA, AUArts, and Major/Minor all ages. I also have volunteered, and executed organizational administration and artistic curation for festivals like FrogFest AB, Indigenous Resilience in Music/Drumbeat Productions Drumbeat Festival and special events/performances/programming for the Calgary Public Library. I have worked and been instrumental in leadership roles for artist collectives and almost single-handedly started an artist-run centre in 2017. I believe that collaboration and the brainstorming of new ideas is key to having a good working relationship with a team and in community engagement. My knowledge of The City’s programs, history, already established leadership and administration gives me a unique point of view in working with various organizations and I enjoy the diversity my practice has offered me. 

My immediate personal goals are to publish my Blackfoot Territory research book (Traditional Methods of Making) and to focus on my next big adventure with Making Treaty 7 and groundcubed on the RiverWalk West project.