Amye Annett-Werner
Amye Annett-Werner is a member of the Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario.…
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Rhonda Doxtator
Rhonda Doxtator is Turtle clan from the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Her true name is Kawisahawi which means She Is Carrying…
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April Allen is the sole proprietor of her small business, Stitched by April. April is an Inuk, originally from Rigolet,…
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Sadie Red Wing (sadieredwing.com) is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of Fort Totten, North…
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Melissa Attagutsiak was born in St. John’s, NL and raised in Iqaluit, NU. She is the artist behind Nuvuja9, creating…
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Te Ataraiti Waretini – Tūhourangi-Ngāti Wāhiao, Tainui, Te Rarawa Ataraiti of Maru Creations shares the beauty of Māori culture with…
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Skye Paul is a Toronto-based artist and a member of the English River First Nation. She is part of the…
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Theresa Burning is a 55-year-old Seneca/Ojibway person, a mother of two, and a grandmother of 2 based in Toronto. Theresa…
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Spence has been designing jewelry and custom leather works from a very young age. She was taught by her grandmother,…
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Rykelle “Ahlazua” Kemp (Choctaw, Mvskoke Creek-Euchee & Diné) Creates wearable art with a modern and traditional approach. Her work represents…
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Sabrina Schlup is an Anishinaabe woman originally from Ebb and Flow FN. She is the co-founder of Anpo Natural Tannery…
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MAWO is written in the Wichi language which means mountain fox and WICHILHENAY is the personal brand of all Wichi…
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Shawkay Ottmann is Anishinaabe and a member of Fishing Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, as well as having British, German,…
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Matriarch Movement is a podcast, and a non-profit organization focused on shifting the mainstream narrative around Indigenous women. MM focuses…
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Shayla Stonechild is Plains Cree from the Muskowpetung reserve. She is a social media influencer and the founder of the…
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Inuvialuk Artist, Designer & Content Creator, Taalrumiq shares Inuvialuit culture with the world, empowering others to take pride in Indigenous…
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Tashina Houle-Schlup is a 23-year-old Anishinaabe woman with roots in Ebb & Flow First Nation, Manitoba and is currently based…
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Tracy Toulouse is Anishnaabe and a proud member of Sagamok Anishnawbek on the north shores of Lake Huron. Tracy is…
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Trip Phoenix, lead designer and artisan at SunHeart Rises Designs, is an Indigenous artist living in downtown Toronto. Born and…
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Ursala Hudson is of German, Filipino and Alaska Native (Tlingit) descent. Her primary creative medium is woven Indigenous couture, crafted…
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Indigenous-owned textiles shop specializing in pow wow fabrics and hard-to-find materials.
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“My granny, my aunties and my mom were all sewers. My mom always had a sewing machine and as a…
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Melanie Squire has been operating Mohawk Mocs since 2013, a home-based business in Six Nations of the Grand River. Along…
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Melrene Saloy is from the Blood Tribe of Southern Alberta, Canada, residing in Calgary, Alberta. She is also the proud…
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Niio Perkins (Haudenosaunee) is an award-winning fashion designer and business owner whose work has been purchased and exhibited at galleries…
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Lisa.beading is handmade one-of-a-kind beadwork made in small batches by mixed Indigenous Haisla/British artist Lisa Walker. Lisa operates from her…
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Livia Manywounds, also known by her traditional name “Blackfoot Woman,” hails from the Tsuut’ina (Dene), Siksika (Blackfoot) and Stoney Nakoda…
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Muskwa mostos kesigok iskew is Lynette La Fontaine’s spirit name. Their late dad was Métis, and their mom is a…
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Mandee McDonald is a hide tanner, workshop facilitator, and a PhD student in the Faculty of Native Studies at the…
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House of Eeyou is the beadwork of Cree Nation EEYOU artist Mandy Gull. She creates beadwork designs that showcase the…
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Margaret Jacobs, Akwesasne Mohawk, is a metalsmith known for her steel sculpture and powder-coated jewelry. Her jewelry explores the tension…
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Marta Orellana was born in the highlands of Petén Guatemala during an outbreak of the civil war, which was recognized…
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Megan Lewis is a young, queer, mixed Kanien’kehá:ka woman and member of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Launched in early 2020, Pine…
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Meghan Weeks is a Woodland Cree/ English artist living and working on the traditional unceded territories of the Coast Salish…
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Michel Dumont is a queer Ojibway French two-spirited disabled artist and survivor of intergenerational trauma stemming from Indian Day School.…
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Mishelle Lavoie is a Shutoatine Dene Metis artist born and raised in Inuvik, NT and is currently living in Yellowknife…
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Native Arts Society (NAS) is inspired by the “art days” from May 2020 at an encampment on a street corner…
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PACHA Indigenous Art Collection is a Kichwa family-owned business based in Toronto, working through the story of the condor and…
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Rey Rose Hope works with dentalium shells, beads, textiles and other natural mediums from the land. Having not grown up…
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Riley Kucheran is an Indigenous fashion researcher who supports a global community of Indigenous makers who are leading design resurgence.…
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From Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, Robyn McLeod is of Dene, Métis, and Scottish descent and a member of the Deh…
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Justin Louis (Nehiyaw) is a fashion designer, graphic designer, photographer and co-founder of Vancouver-based SECTION 35. A member of the…
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Lesley Hampton (she/her) is a multi-award-winning Anishinaabe Artist, Model, Speaker, and Designer focused on mental health awareness, body positivity, and…
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The Sister Bears’ family includes Valerie (eldest sister bear), Kathleen (the sister who maintains the middle balance), and Malinda (youngest…
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Jaymie Campbell is Anishnaabe from Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario and currently resides in British Columbia. Jaymie is the…
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Anemki Art Collective supports Indigenous makers from Northern Ontario. For the IFA marketplace, the collective will represent about 20 makers…
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Raised in the Southeast Alaska town of Yakutat, nature and traditional ways of life encircled Jennifer. Jennifer is Tlingit of…
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Representing a delegation of Indigenous Arts from NWT, NWT Arts works with Indigenous art and craft creators from across the…
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Kairyn Potts (he/him) is a proud Two-Spirit winkte man from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation. Originally from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) he…
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Kanina Terry is an Anishnaabe-kwe with an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) mother and a white father. She was born and lives on…
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Karennotakies Barnes is a 27 years old mother of 2. Her family avidly hunts, tans hides, gardens and goes on…
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The Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism Association (YFNCT) is a non-profit organization that is committed to growing and promoting…
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Keitha Keeshig-Tobias Biizindam (She who listens and learns and uses what she hears) is a versatile modern artist based in…
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Kent Monkman (b. 1965) is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5…
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Kerry Swanson is Co-Executive Director of the Indigenous Screen Office, Canada’s largest Indigenous-led funding organization for Indigenous screen-based content. A…
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Kiki Twin faced a tragedy in 2020 that forced her to find other ways to care for herself and her…
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EMME Studio is a New York-based clothing and accessory brand founded by Korina Emmerich. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, her…
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Krysta Furioso is an Anishinaabekwe from Fort William First Nation and living in Coast Salish territories for over 25 years.…
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Originally from the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia and currently based in Vancouver, Curtis Oland is a Lil’Wat-Canadian garment designer…
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Evan Ducharme is Metis with ancestral ties to the Cree, Ojibwe, and Saulteaux Peoples from the historic community of St.…
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Dorathy Wright created and modelled her first gown when she was eight by turning an old dress into a dining…
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Born In The North is a Creative studio owned and operated by twin brothers Chris & Greg Mitchell. Their work…
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Inuk was born, raised and continues to live in the Northwest Territories (NT), Canada. Since childhood, Inuk wanted to be…
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Helen Pelletier is an Anishinabe kwe from Fort William First Nation. Helen has worked with Wigwas for 20 years and…
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D’Arcy Moses is an Indigenous Dene originally from the Pehdzeh Ki First Nation; a small community located in the Mackenzie…
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Destiny Seymour is an Anishinaabe interior designer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She holds a masters in Interior Design from the…
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Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian writer, curator and arts leader with a practice based on multidisciplinary programming at the intersection…
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Mobilize creates art in fashion to shift consciousness in community and within. Founder, Dusty LaGrande hopes that everything he creates…
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Assinewe Jewelry specializes in beadwork and clay jewelry, incorporating traditional Ojibwe styles and techniques into fashionable contemporary designs. Edie and…
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16-year-old Émilie McKinney is from Swan Lake First Nation, Manitoba and is a bilingual student (French and English) at École…
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Heather Kiskihkoman is a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist living & working in Nipisihkopahk, Maskwacîs, Alberta. From the Rez, Heather interpreters beauty…
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Janelle Wawia is a self-taught artist from Opwaaganasiniing (Red Rock Indian Band). Her multidisciplinary work interprets her visions and dreams…
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Jason Ryle is a producer, curator, story editor, and independent arts consultant based in Toronto. He is Anishinaabe from Lake…
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jayde micah is an Anishinaabe artist from Atikameksheng Anishnawbek and currently resides on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the…
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Celeste Pedri-Spade is an Anishinabekwe (Ojibwe) research-based artist from Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation. She identifies as a “mark…
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Brit Ellis, aka Blu Hummingbird, is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in beadwork and tattooing, with a background in community work…
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Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak, Saskatchewan, of Dene and European ancestry and is a member of the English River…
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Cedar Eve is Anishinaabe (Ojibway) from Saugeen First Nation And Wikwemikoong Unceded Territory. Cedar was born and raised in Toronto.…
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Cory Hunlin is a Tsilhqot’in artist from Tsideldel (Redstone, BC), raised in Vancouver and now living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, QC).…
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Adeline Bird is an Afro-Anishnabe author, filmmaker, and producer. She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but is a proud…
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Amy Malbeuf is an award-winning Métis visual artist. Amy is from Rich Lake, Alberta, Treaty 6 territory and she lives…
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Andrea Johns (she/her) is a Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk beadwork artist, focusing on fine jewellery, portraiture and other wearable art. She works with…
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Beth-Ann McIvor (she/her) is Métis/Hungarian/Irish from Treaty 1, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Raised Catholic in the city, she still found a deep…
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Born in Nuuk in 1983 and raised all over Greenland, Bibi Chemnitz is Greenlandic Inuit. Her eponymous brand launched in…
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Bobby Brower is an Inupiaq fashion artist and furrier born and raised in Utqiagvik, Alaska. She is now the designer…
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Bronwyn Butterfield (she/her) is a self-taught artist focusing on beadwork. She is fourth-generation beadwork in her family. She creates various…
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Carola Jones (Seminole & Gullah/Geechee) is an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper and Kokum. A knowledge keeper of historical traditional textile practices…
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Cheryl Suggashie is Ojibway from Pikangikum First Nation, an isolated community in Northern Ontario. She holds an MA in Social…
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Christina Breen is an Anishinaabe maker with rural and urban roots and a Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation member.…
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waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy is makwa odoodem (Bear Clan) from obiishkikaang Lac Seul First Nation and Island Lake, both in Ontario.…
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Qaulluq believes in the importance of living by Iñupiat Iḷitqusiat (traditional values that make us who we are) and the…
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Savanna Chiblow is a 2Spirit Anishinaabe-kwe from Mississaugi First Nation. She is a digital communications storyteller and community builder. Her…
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Jessica Lea Fleming is a Métis / Scottish-settler cisgender woman originally from Penetanguishene, Ontario. She is a multi-award-winning artist and…
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Pesch Nepoose is a Cree multidisciplinary artist from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. In May 2019, she…
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Tracee Smith is Founder, CEO and Producer of Outside Looking In (OLI), and is Oji-Cree from Missanabie Cree First Nation in northern…
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Emma Petahtegoose is Anishinaabe, Onyota’a:ka and Lenape. Emma also goes by her Anishinaabe name, Niigaanii (pronounced nee-gon-nee). Emma was raised…
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Michelle is a lighting designer who works with dance, theatre, and opera companies across Canada. Selected designs include: Indigenous Fashion…
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Brandon is a set and costume designer based in Toronto with work appearing on stages across Canada. He was nominated…
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Lesley is both Anishinaabe and Inninew from the Missipawistic Cree Nation. She is based in Treaty One Territory Winnipeg Manitoba.…
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Jennifer is honoured to be working with IFA and their remarkable team of designers and creative visionaries. Jennifer is a…
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Cliff Cardinal is a writer and performer. His solo play HUFF was shortlisted for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award.…
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Eva Thomas is a member of the Walpole Island First Nation. As a creator and storyteller, she is passionate about…
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Tiffany Creyke, whose traditional name is Kastē’t, is a member of the Tahltan Nation. Creyke’s interests in reclaiming space to…
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Nyla Innuksuk is a producer of film and virtual reality content. She is the Founder of Mixtape VR, which produces…
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Jodi Lynn Maracle is a Kanien’keha:ka mother, artist, craftswoman, and scholar-activist based in Buffalo, NY. She centers her work on…
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Dehmin Cleland is an Objibwe and Odawa artist. Originally from Wikwemikong, she now resides in Toronto as she completes her…
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Leslie Kachena McCue is a member of the Mississaugas of Curve Lake First Nation, who has fought for Indigenous rights…
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Faye Millen is of Cree & European ancestry currently living in Toronto, Ontario. Her fashion industry experience over the past…
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Myranda Spence is Oji-Cree; her maternal ancestral Cree roots are from northern Ontario James Bay and her paternal Ojibwe roots…
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Kristy Inglese is Moose Cree from Moose Factory First Nation. She has worked with Indigenous Fashion Arts (IFWTO at the…
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Liam Colbourne is a free-lance production and events consultant specializing in Fashion and The Arts. With many years of experience…
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Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Myers has a Master of…
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Nadya Kwandibens is Anishinaabe from Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation in northwestern Ontario. She is an award winning portrait…
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Sarah Jay is a fashion director, producer, content creator, filmmaker and activist based in Toronto. For over 18 years she…
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Melanie Egan is the Director of Craft & Design at Harbourfront Centre with over 30 years of experience in the…
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Rhéanne Chartrand is the Curator of Indigenous Art at McMaster Museum of Art. She holds a master’s degree in Museum…
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Xina spent the first 29 years of her life in Montreal and now calls Yellowknife home. After studying Human Relations…
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Richly inspired by her Anishinaabe/French Métis heritage, Anne Mulaire is the sustainable brand of fashion designer Andréanne (Anne) Mulaire Dandeneau.…
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Ben Barry (he/him) is a fashion educator, scholar and academic leader who is committed to liberation in fashion education and…
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Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory,…
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Justine Woods (she/her) is a garment artist, designer, creative scholar and educator based in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario). She is a…
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2Spirit Eeyou, Scott Wabano grew up amongst the isolated Indigenous communities along the coast of James Bay, with little exposure…
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Adam Phipps is a filmmaker, musician, and installation artist. His core values of ecological responsibility, inclusive community, and equity are…
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Kinnie Starr is a multidisciplinary artist and Canadian icon. A self taught musician born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Starr…
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Andayah Laramee is an interdisciplinary artist who approaches their craft through their Cree and Ghanaian heritage. Andayah’s first contact with…
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Multi-award nominated, winner and loser, creator Brian Solomon is of mixed Anishinaabe and Irish heritage, born in Shebahonaning on the…
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Christine Tootoo is from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and currently works as a Youth Program Coordinator. She has worked on a…
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Juno nominated Cris Derksen is an Internationally respected Indigenous Cellist and Composer. In a world where almost everything — people,…
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F. Laliberte is a Toronto-based Indigenous media artist. Telling stories through the visual medium of film has been a lifelong…
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Israel Garcia hails from Walpole Island (Bkejwanong) First Nation. With Ojibway and Mexican roots, and over 17 years in the…
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JONATHAN ELLIOTT is a Mohawk filmmaker from the Six Nations Reserve. He has worked as a director and cinematographer on…
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She is a Mestizo artist of Mexican descent. Her main studies in the arts are in classical ballet and contemporary…
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Michelle is a Toronto based multi-award winning lighting designer who works with dance, theatre and opera companies across Canada and…
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Robin has enjoyed an extensive career as a set and costume designer for theatre, dance, and film. Her design work…
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Shane Belcourt is Tony Belcourt’s son. Or Christi Belcourt’s brother. Or Claire’s Dad. He is also an award-winning Métis director,…
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A Rez Kat from Walpole Island First Nations Bkejwanong Territory. Summer is an artist of many trades. Specializing in Professional…
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Candace Scott-Moore (Wilde) [Anishinaabe – Ojibwe Potawatomi] is a graduate from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and The Banff Centre…
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Damien Nelson is press agent with 15 years of experience in marketing and communications in the arts sector. As a…
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Katie Mooney is a Metis woman from the traditional homeland of the Metis in Treaty 6 territory. Katie finds the…
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Sage Paul is an urban Denesuliné woman based in Toronto and a member of English River First Nation. Her ethos…
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Heather Haynes has a long history of producing innovative, politically focused projects in visual and performance arts, film/documentary and theatre.…
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Garvia Bailey is a storyteller, broadcaster, host, producer, and co-founder of the on-line radio station, JAZZCAST (jazzcast.ca). She has been…
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Amber Sandy is Anishinaabe and a member of Neyaashiinigmiing, Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is an artist with a…
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Foxall Studio is a London-based creative practice focused on the future of image-making. Their work often divides technology and the…
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Kramer’s longstanding commitment to innovative approaches to Indigenous art and culture, and her broad experiences working with Native artists, scholars,…
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Melaw Nakehko is Dehcho and Denesuline Dene, and was born in Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Nakehk’o is…
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Barbara Teller Ornelas is best known for her Navajo tapestry weavings and is a Master Navajo weaver, (120 – 126 weft…
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Nathalie Atkinson is a Toronto-based arts journalist and film critic, and a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association. Her…
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Christian Allaire is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) writer from Nipissing First Nation. He is currently based in New York City, where…
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Patti Derbyshire is the co-founder of Otahpiaaki and an Associate Professor in Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Social Innovation at Mount Royal…
Learn MoreChristi Belcourt
Christi Belcourt is a Michif (Métis) visual artist with a deep respect for Mother Earth, the traditions and the knowledge…
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jaye simpson is a Oji-Cree non binary trans woman writer whose roots hail from Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, Treaty 4. they…
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Harlan Pruden (nēhiyo/First Nations Cree Nation), works with and for the Two-Spirit community locally, nationally and internationally. Currently, Harlan is…
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Award-winning journalist Duncan McCue is the Rogers Journalist-in-Residence at the Ryerson School of Journalism. He is currently a Southam Fellow…
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A writer and journalist based in Toronto, previously from the Six Nations reserve. Kelly’s work has appeared in Elle Canada,…
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Bobby Qalutaksraq Itta is an Inupiaq fashion artist, and furrier. She was born and raised in Utqiagvik, Alaska. She is…
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Adrienne J. Keene is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her research areas include…
Learn MoreCher Chapman
Cher Chapman is from Fort William First Nation, Ontario. She is an exquisite beadworker that has a very unique sense…
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Audrey is from Anizaatikoong (Lac Des Mille Lacs) First Nation and currently resides in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She is an…
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Reena Larabee is Anishnaabekwe. She grew up in Hymers, a small village just outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Her family…
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Melissa Twance is a beadwork artist who lives and works in Thunder Bay, ON. Originally from Pic Mobert First Nation,…
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Katie longboat is a Toronto based Indigenous bead artist, originally from Six Nations of the Grand River. Her beadwork style…
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Shannon Gustafson (Ojibwe) is a member of Whitesand First Nation and a long term resident of Thunder Bay Ontario, She…
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Angel Aubichon is a Cree-Metis Designer and Co-founder of Indi City. She was born and raised in Northern Saskatchewan and…
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Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais who lives and works in Montreal. She studied in Sociology and Communication…
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Leanna Marshall is of Anishinaabe and English descent. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario where she continues to live.…
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Olivia Whetung is anishinaabekwe and a member of Curve Lake First Nation. She completed her BFA with a minor in…
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The Pacific Sisters is a collective of Pacific and Māori fashion designers, artists, performers, and musicians that electrified 1990s Auckland,…
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Jay Soule aka CHIPPEWAR is an Indigenous Artist from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation (Deshkaan Ziibing Anishinaabeg) located…
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Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) is a weaver descended from the Haida and Kwakwaka’wakw tribes of coastal British Columbia. Her innovative…
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Jean Marshall is of Anishinaabe/English descent, based in Thunder Bay, Ontario and a band member of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation.…
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Erica Donovan is an Inuvialuit artist from Tuktoyaktuk, NT. #SheWasAFreeSpirit is Erica’s brand that comes from a pure place of…
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Mad Aunty was established in 2017 as the creative outlet for visual artist Joi T. Arcand. Using brightly coloured laser-cut…
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Urban Inuk salvages throw-away materials to turn into beautiful new things. The eco-friendly art and tools created come from the…
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Lavinia Van Heuvelen studied Jewellery and Metalwork at Nunavut Arctic College. After graduating, she launched LVH Jewellery. Lavinia makes most…
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Mary Jacobs is an artist who travels to various art markets around the USA. Mary Jacobs creations are designed from…
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Tania Larsson designs contemporary, northern Indigenous adornment based on Gwich’in culture and created with land-based materials. Tania makes these adornments…
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Theresa Stevenson is a Plains and Swampy Cree from Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba and George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan,…
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Tracy Toulouse “The impact and legacy of our clothing is to identify us as a nation” Tracy Toulouse is from…
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Single mom of two, and aspiring fashion designer. Wabigonikwe Tenasco is influenced by her Algonquin and Mohawk cultural heritage. She…
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Marlene Kwandibens is an Ojibway from Whitesand First Nation on the northern shores of Lake Nipigon. Currently living in Sault…
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Sheila Demerah is an Anishinaabekwe from Fort William First Nation, Ontario. She works full-time as an administrative support to the…
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Miss Chief Rocka is a nēhiyaw accessory & apparel brand, established in 2012, by award winning Hip-hop and Powwow dancer…
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Jason Baerg is an Indigenous curator, educator, and visual artist. Recent curatorial projects include exhibitions with Toronto’s Nuit Blanche and…
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Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as…
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Ay Lelum The Good House of Design is a second generation Coast Salish Design House from Nanaimo, B.C.. Garments are…
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Louise Solomon is an Ojibwe multimedia artist and fashion activist from Toronto, Canada. Her Indigenous community is NEYAASHIINIGMIING and her…
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Starting out in the Canadian fashion industry working for designers Comrags and Jeremy Laing in 2014, Warren Steven Scott launched…
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HANDMADE. Hand HARVESTED. CUSTOM DESIGNED Brenda Lee Asp captures her First Nation family ways with foundational cultural teachings of traditional…
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Originally from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario and now living in Toronto. Bruno was a resident of…
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