Resilience
Art is many things. It is personal. It is political, passionate and poetic. Art is sensual, fun, a remedy, a healing agent for pain and loss. Art releases ideas to inspire others. Art moves a nation. Art will bring our spirit back.
If there is a grandfather of Contemporary Indigenous art, it is Alex Janvier, a Denesuline man from Cold Lake, Alberta. As an artist, he stands alone in the realm of abstract painting. He is collected by several National Galleries worldwide and Alex is on every private art collector’s wish list. Art curator’s fuss over him wherever he goes. To have a Janvier on your wall is indeed a badge, a recognition that you know your… READ MORE
Rosalie Favell is a Métis (Cree/English) artist born in 1958. Her body of work primarily features self-portrait photography with a wide spectrum of artistic embellishments added to each piece, collage-like imagery incorporating family photographs from her childhood, and clean and crisp portraits of contemporary Indigenous artists. READ MORE
Resilience