Title: Lyric

Artist: Christine Toulouse

Tribal Affiliation: Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Quillwork, Porcupine quills on birch bark, Framed

Dimensions (HxWxD): quilled birch bark is 4"x4"; walnut coloured frame is 12"x12"

Description/Inspiration:

Porcupine quills are hand harvested, sorted, cleaned and dyed (watermelon pink, aqua green and soft green). Birchbark is sourced from Sagahmok Anishnawbek region. Frame is walnut coloured. Eyes shut, gliding along the beat's breeze. Free to move, stretch toward melody. Lyric was created as a part of collection that honours movement and growth, as we follow the songs whispered to us on the wind, or beating in our hearts.

Artist Bio/Statement:

Christine Toulouse is an Anishinaabe artist from Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation whose current primary focus is in the traditional realm of quillwork, a form of textile embellishment using dyed or natural-coloured quills from porcupines to weave into birch bark. Christine works to connect land and season to practice. She absorbs and passes down Indigenous memory and knowledge, tethers herself to ancestors and traditions, and invites past into present allowing for memory to become reality in her work.

Her practice involves learning cultural and traditional arts and practices from First Nations Elders and promoting the significance of quillwork as a process to learn, heal, grow, and share.

Christine's technique has been passed down from quill artists preceding her. She was taught the traditional craft of quillwork from her grandmother, Ida Assinewe (Toulouse) who is a quill box artist herself.

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Title: Untitled

Artist: Ikerson Hopper

Tribal Affiliation: Onondaga Nation

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Quillwork / Painting

Dimensions (HxWxD): Mens Size 12

Artist Bio/Statement:
Ikerson Hopper is an Onondaga Nation based artist who specializes in traditional customized works in various mediums. His artistic expression includes graphic design, porcupine quillwork, beadwork, woodcarving, tattoo and apparel design.

Ikerson loves creating one of a kind pieces, very rarely replicating a piece, keeping nearly everything he designs a one of a kind. He hopes to give insight into the Onondaga culture through his many art forms. As an inherent extension of his work, Ikerson passes along a sense of pride to be Ongwehonweh for future seven generations.

He holds a bachelors degree in graphic design from the University of Adelphi, and has recently begun his career as a full-time artist after years of traveling and playing lacrosse.

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Title: Untitled

Artist: Alicia Marie - Alicia Hitchings

Tribal Affiliation: Passamaquoddy tribe in Indian township Maine

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Beadwork, Braiding, Quills

Dimensions (HxWxD): 2.5 inches long

Description/Inspiration:

Quills surrounded by 24K gold plated true cuts, black painted true cuts and sweetgrass. Edged in gold plated true cuts. Hooks are gold plated. Backed in deer hide.

Artist Bio/Statement:

My name is Alicia Hitchings and I'm an enrolled member of the Passamaquoddy tribe in Indian township Maine. I self taught beading and using quills in my necklaces and bracelets while in high school. In the 90's there wasn't much I could do with my art, so I stopped in college. After a traumatic event in my life a few years ago, I picked back up my beads and quills as a form of healing. I added in sweetgrass, not only is it amazing medicine, but as a connection to my grandmother since she braided for the basket makers back in the day. I love thinking of her and feeling her next to me every time I make tiny braids and I add them as a finishing touch to all my earrings. I reside in WV with 6 kids with beading as my main "job" and children's photography on the side.

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Title: Black beaded Porcupine Quill Teardrop earrings

Artist: Teal Fawn Designs - Maria Livingston

Tribal Affiliation: Bigstone Cree First Nation

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Size 10-11 seed beads (black, grey), dyed porcupine quills, sterling silver earring hooks, felt, rhinestone banding, thread

Dimensions (HxWxD): 0.25" x 1.5" x 3"

Description/Inspiration:

Beautiful handmade earrings with a simple all black color palette. Extra detail of porcupine quills that are dyed black. A simple and beautiful go-to pair of earrings.

Artist Bio/Statement:

Maria Livingston is a member of the Bigstone Cree First Nation in Northern AB, Canada. She is a mother of two children with a passion for sharing her culture through visual arts, specifically through beadwork. Maria's work is influenced largely by nature and pop culture.

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