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Remaking connections through art(ifacts)
Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2025-02-04 Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2025-02-04

Remaking connections through art(ifacts)

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Kristen Barnett is leading an Indigenous archaeology lab that will help communities reconnect with rematriated items

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Art-meets-function in Indigenous furniture and design
Design, Indigenous, Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-10-03 Design, Indigenous, Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-10-03

Art-meets-function in Indigenous furniture and design

Globe and Mail

A niche is forming in interior design as practitioners respond to a lack of Indigenous-designed furniture, home goods and textiles on the market.

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Artist Profile: Garret T. Willie
Indigenous, Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-09-12 Indigenous, Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-09-12

Artist Profile: Garret T. Willie

Strathcona Collective

Old concert tapes, rewound and replayed, were the gateway to classic rock for 23-year-old guitarist and vocalist Garret T. Willie, and the start of a dream to get on stage.

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Indigenous publishers preserve stories in print as book sales rise
Indigenous, Features Melanie Ritchot 2024-07-11 Indigenous, Features Melanie Ritchot 2024-07-11

Indigenous publishers preserve stories in print as book sales rise

Globe and Mail

With a mission to ensure the visibility and preservation of the Inuktitut language, Inhabit Books in Toronto fosters Indigenous storytelling and cultural continuity.

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Vancouver Chamber Choir set to premiere T. Patrick Carrabré's Histoires des Métis in Longhouse concert
Indigenous, Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-29 Indigenous, Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-29

Vancouver Chamber Choir set to premiere T. Patrick Carrabré's Histoires des Métis in Longhouse concert

Stir Magazine

Indigenous song with nods to Indigenous traditions from groups across Turtle Island will fill the Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall.

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With Otosan, Shizuka Kai draws on personal story of wildlife-videographer father with artful puppets
Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-24 Art Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-24

With Otosan, Shizuka Kai draws on personal story of wildlife-videographer father with artful puppets

Stir Magazine

Tabletop puppets, wildlife footage and projected animations tell the story of a young girl trying to connect with her father.

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Increased demand for Indigenous-led architecture means challenging the norms of a colonial industry
Indigenous, Features, Design Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-16 Indigenous, Features, Design Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-16

Increased demand for Indigenous-led architecture means challenging the norms of a colonial industry

The Globe and Mail

Seven ravens lined up along a clerestory of the Naskapi Women’s Shelter, sunlight filling the space below while the new building was inspected.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s The Show features everything from an interdimensional broadcast booth to Ulysses-inspired printmaking
Art, Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-07 Art, Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-07

Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s The Show features everything from an interdimensional broadcast booth to Ulysses-inspired printmaking

Stir Magazine

Portals, beeswax, ad Ulysses, oh my! Those are just some of the ideas behind works by graduating students displaying works at Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s The Show.

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Film review: nanekawâsis
Art, Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-02 Art, Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2024-05-02

Film review: nanekawâsis

Stir Magazine

In a visual style redolent of the artist’s works, archival footage, poetry, and language are stitched together between contemporary interviews with George Littlechild in his biography film, nanekawâsis.

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Place Power
Design Melanie Ritchot 2024-04-30 Design Melanie Ritchot 2024-04-30

Place Power

Block Magazine

We spoke to Chris Fair, president of Resonance—the consultancy behind the World’s Best Cities about the process of placemaking.

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In You used to call me Marie, playwright-actor Tai Amy Grauman digs into Métis women’s stories
Art, Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2024-04-12 Art, Indigenous Melanie Ritchot 2024-04-12

In You used to call me Marie, playwright-actor Tai Amy Grauman digs into Métis women’s stories

Stir Magazine

Theatre-goers will witness epic love stories spanning decades, with Alberta Métis women’s stories at the forefront, in You used to call me Marie.

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The Inkmaker
Features, Art, Design Melanie Ritchot 2024-01-11 Features, Art, Design Melanie Ritchot 2024-01-11

The Inkmaker

Block Magazine

One afternoon in August, the task at hand was to carbonize a peach pit. Other days, it’s foraging for black walnuts or rust somewhere in Toronto.

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