Chief Lady Bird
Chief Lady Bird is a Chippewa and Potawatomi artist from Rama First Nation and Moosedeer Point First Nation, who is currently based in Rama. She graduated from OCAD University in 2015 with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Indigenous Visual Culture. Chief Lady Bird’s art practice is continuously shapeshifting, and is always heavily influenced by her passion for empowering and uplifting Indigenous folks through the subversion of colonial narratives.
Paul Shilling
As an aboriginal man, Paul feels the need to shed the image that was taught to him as a child – that he was undesirable, shameful, unworthy. This continual redefinition, the questioning and searching, keeps Paul’s work alive; seeking to shed the old self and invite the new, and ever-changing self. As he expresses himself, he heals himself; the inner voice and the inner eye clear and open for the energy of the image to move through him from “the great house of invention”. This is the manifest vision from the sky world which springs to life in the paintings.
Neon Birch Works
Neon Birch Works is owned by Anishinaabe/Chippewa multimedia artist, surface pattern designer and jewellery designer Tammy Beers. She is a proud status member of Rama First Nation and is a member of the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. She lives and works in Tkaronto (Toronto).
Tammy was taught how to bead by Anishinaabe women but developed her own method for designing original work and securing her beadwork. All loomed beadwork is double stitched for durability and all hooks are nickel-free.