Our next Artist You Need To Know is Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He is one of the most outspoken and important – both in terms of his artwork and activism – contemporary Indigenous artists in Canada. Yuxweluptun is of Cowichan / Syilx First Nations heritage....
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Daphne Odjig (1919 – 2016). She was a First Nations artist of Odawa-Potawatomi-English heritage. Her painting is often characterized as Woodlands Style or as the pictographic style. Odjig was the major instigator and founder of the...
Our latest Artist You Need to Know is Shelley Niro. She’s a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, Turtle Clan. Employing such diverse media as photography, painting, sculpture and film, Niro’s art often uses humour...
