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2020 Marketplace
November 26, 2020
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Northwestern Ontario Spotlight
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Sister Bear Designs began as a healing journey for 3 sisters (Valerie, Kathleen and Malinda), to honour their family and community’s knowledge, strength, resilience and determination
- Ojibway
- Canada
- Craft
Helen Pelletier is from Fort William First Nation, Ontario. She is inspired by her community, mentors and the land.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Cher Chapman is from Fort William First Nation, Ontario. She is an exquisite beadworker that has a very unique sense of style and design, always using the double needle stitch technique.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Melissa Twance is a beadwork artist who lives and works in Thunder Bay, ON. Originally from Pic Mobert First Nation, her beadwork designs pay homage to Northwestern Ontario and traditional iconography
- Ojibwe
- Canada
- Craft
Shannon Gustafson (Ojibwe) is a member of Whitesand First Nation and a long term resident of Thunder Bay Ontario, She works as a full time artist and has experience in various artistic mediums
- Ojibway
- Canada
- Craft
Dallas Abitong is Ojibway Anishinabekwe artisit from Sagamok First Nation, Ontario.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Sheila has been perfecting her craft for the past 14 year beading, leatherwork and learning about her culture through traditional crafts.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Jean Marshall is Ahnishnaabe. She was raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She is a band member of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, Treaty 9.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Marlene Kwandibens is an Ojibway from Whitesand First Nation on the northern shores of Lake Nipigon.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Reena Larabee is Anishnaabekwe. She grew up in Hymers, a small village just outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
Audrey Deroy is an Eastern Woodland artist who translates her Anishinaabe culture visually through natural fibers and honouring material culture.
Fashion
- Mi'kmaq
- Canada
- Fashion
Born in the North is the design duo consisting of twin brothers Christopher and Gregory Mitchell. g.
- Snuneymuxw
- Canada
- Fashion
Ay Lelum The Good House of Design is a second generation Coast Salish Design House from Nanaimo, B.C.. Garments are designed and produced in B.C. by Sisters, Aunalee and Sophia.
- Tahltan Nation & Northern Tutchone
- Canada
- Craft
Brenda Lee Asp captures her First Nation family ways with foundational cultural teachings of traditional leather garment creation; various concepts of print design and First Nations ways of beading.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Fashion
Lesley Hampton spent her early life in constant relocation. A “Third Culture Kid”, Lesley spent years in Canada’s Arctic and Atlantic, Australia, England, Indonesia, and New Caledonia.
Craft
- Anishinaabae (Ojibway)
- Canada
- Craft
Cedar-Eve began to make jewellery out of the need to learn something new. As they continue to bead, they realize that it keeps them grounded and secure cultural identity.
- Mohawk
- USA
- Craft
Born and raised in Northern New York, Margaret Jacobs is a member of the AkwesasneMohawk Tribe. She shows her work nationally including recent exhibitions at Boise Art Museumin Idaho…
- Mohawk/Cree
- Canada
- Craft
Katie longboat is a Toronto based Indigenous bead artist, originally from Six Nations of the Grand River. Her beadwork style incorporates inspirations from the natural world, her travels, her family,
- Dene
- Canada
- Craft
Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak Saskatchewan, of Dene and European ancestry and is a member of the English River First Nation.
- Seneca/ Ojibway
- Canada
- Craft
Theresa Burning is a Seneca/Ojibway woman who has spent the majority of her life in Toronto. She has two children and two grandchildren.
- Inuk
- Canada
- Craft
Northern elements are finely rendered in silver to create delicate wearable artworks inspired by the artist’s Inuit heritage and the northern landscape.
- Cayuga Nation
- Canada
- Craft
Originally from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario and now living in Toronto.
- Anishinaabe
- Canada
- Craft
White Otter Design Co. was started in 2015 to incorporate Jaymie Campbell’s love of traditional artistry with contemporary fashion.
- Inuvialuit
- Canada
- Craft
Erica Lugt is an Inuvialuit artist from Tuktoyaktuk, NT. #SheWasAFreeSpirit is Erica’s brand that comes from a pure place of love and healing while honouring Inuvialuit culture.
- CREE
- Canada
- Craft
Theresa Stevenson is a Plains and Swampy Cree from Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba and George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, who is currently based in Toronto.
- Seneca Nation
- Canada
- Craft
Mary Jacobs creations are designed from traditional trade items and made with a modern twist.
- Blackfoot
- Canada
- Craft
Native Diva Creations is a First Nations owned small business in Calgary, Alberta.
- Haudenosaunee (Onondaga)
- Canada
- Craft
Brit Ellis aka Blu Hummimgbird is a multidisciplinary artist specializing is beadwork and cosmetic tattooing, with a background in community work and counselling.
- Akwesasne Mohawk
- Canada
- Fashion, Craft
Niio Perkins (Bear Clan, Haudenosaunee) is an award-winning designer and owner of Niio Perkins Designs in Akwesasne, New York.
- Inuit
- Canada
- Craft
Urban Inuk salvages throw-away materials to turn into beautiful new things.
- Dene
- Canada
- Craft
Running Fox Beads was founded by Skye Paul. Skye’s artistic practice expresses a new generational perspective that respectfully sustains traditional skills and knowledge.
- Haudenosaunee - Mohawk Nation
- Canada
- Craft
Mohawk Mocs proudly carries on the tradition of hand-crafting custom moccasins for the entire family.
- Gwich'in
- Canada
- Craft
Tania Larsson design contemporary, northern Indigenous adornment based on Gwich’in culture, created with land-based materials.
Textiles
- Gwich'in
- Canada
- Textiles
Willow Crescent Quilting started in 2014 by Dorathy Alberta as a small home based quilting business.