Design concept for 2018 Poo’miikapi Quilting Workshop Harvesting Otahpiaaki Indigo Dye sponsored by Blackfoot Confederacy and Mount Royal University.
Category: Algonquin
Indigenous Textiles As A Holistic Practice
Teaching, learning, sharing and healing through indigenous textiles.
My Journey Home To Myself
Transformative experience of Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto
Fête de la Musique | It’s Pow Wow Time
Summer Solstice Memories
Walking Out Transformation
Walk With Me Lord
Praying My Memories Haunt Me
Walk by faith, not by sight.
From Daniel Hill to Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto
Understanding the creative process and an artist’s search for the real.
Art Lessons From Jazz
The creative process described from an Algonquin point of view.
May Day::”Today I Begin Anew…”
May 1st is a memory of celebrating spring by dancing vibrant colored strips of cloth around a flower-covered pole. Momma was the freshman/sophomore Home Ec teacher in charge of dying the fabric. She dyed the fabric in our backyard under a pecan tree on Atlantic Street. May Day meant being able to wear all my…
My Indigo Blues Journey
I’m a Teaching Artist from a family of teachers and women who loved sewing, quilting, dyeing fabric, weaving rugs, embroidery and crochet. I grew up in a multi-generational home where handmade was a way of life. I earned a BFA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Studio Art with concentrations in…
All About Indigo
The only natural blue dye comes from the indigo plant. Indigo is one of the oldest dyes in the history of humanity. Its history is rich with mystery, ruthlessness, greed, exploration and mystical qualities. All About Indigo explores the plant.
