#metis art

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Maria-Margaretta | she makes all things good. 2023

Billboard Exchange co-presented in Saskatoon, SK by AKA Artist-Run, Hamilton Artists Inc., and PAVED ArtsBillboard at 424, 20th St W, Saskatoon, SK

"How do we care for objects and the stories they hold? Artist Maria-Margaretta explores generational relations by considering the ways in which objects are created, kept, and passed down. Her photographic billboard, she makes all things good, reflects on her homelands and ancestral lineage through the transformative power of objects.

The image consists of three objects: an axe centerpiece held by a hand wearing beaded white gloves, placed against a canvas tent. Margaretta collaborated with Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley to create a sheath for the axe, adorning the object with delicate beadwork as a gift for their young daughter. The axe is a well-used family tool recovered on Pawis-Steckley’s nan’s beach on Wasauksing First Nation. Design elements on the sheath reference and honour their Métis and Anishinaabe heritage and shared journey as parents. Meanwhile, the elbow-length white gloves, beaded by Margaretta for her great great grandmother, embody the Michif matriarchs whose labour in raising families upholds Métis nationhood. The worn, olive-coloured tent belonging to Margaretta’s grandfather sets a warm and earthy tone to the image, reminiscent of her ancestral homelands in St. Louis, Saskatchewan. Together, the axe, glove, and tent carry the past into the present, envisioning new worlds for holding and dreaming with their daughter. "

[nightgalen]

little work-in-progress for some Métis goodness (I am Indigenous)

[red-revival]

Some pictures of my biggest textile project this year! I’m going to have beadwork on every segment of this jacket :)

Its not visible in these pictures but there’s also an infinity sign with blue flowers on one shoulder to be a stylized metis flag! I’m gonna put the neurodiversity symbol on the other shoulder bc they’re both infinity signs so it’d be cool :) on one of the front pockets I have the mlm sign with beads but the way my jacket folds hides it so I’m going to re-do it somewhere else

[doctorsiren]

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[medusaspeach]

[Text ID: Metis (Oceanid) Titan-Goddess of wisdom, cunning, planning, and deep thought.]

A first pass at Metis, trying to get down a design for Athena but she is quite tricky. I've considered blonde or even red hair for her, but I'd like for her to be a cooling contrast to Ares, hence her blue tones.

* little Athena and Metis... inside Zeus.

* Metis forges Athena's first set of armor and helps her escape from the fore head of Zeus.

* Athena and Owl - Because of the unusual and traumatic rebirth, Athena loses most of her memories and no longer remembers her mother or the time spent growing up inside her dad.

owl cute 🌿

[lesbocean]

the answer

[golden-snackoos]

unresolved tension

[yellowtrinity]

almost as much as she loved you

[ind1c0lite]

SO HEED THE STARS, THEIR LIGHT WILL LEAVE US IN THE DARK

[howlidae]

twitter doodle crosspost time here we go!! did a few ships for a "ask me to draw ships" thing, plus a teenage pearl/redesign pearl and some ponies

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Justine Woods | I love you as much as all the beads in the universe: a garment-based inquiry into re-stitching alternative worlds of love. 2021

Top: “We carry our homeland(s) close to our heart. (front view)”; Middle: “We carry our homeland(s) close to our heart. (trout filleting detail)”; Bottom: “Our bodies our stitched with 193 years of diasporic love (back detail of beaded Drummond island.)”

love you as much as all the beads in the universe: a garment-based inquiry into re-stitching alternative worlds of love “engages with a praxis of decolonial love through garment construction and beadwork as a practice-based method of inquiry. My research centres decolonial love as methodology with the expressed purpose to physically and conceptually re-stitch alternative worlds that are grounded in ethical practices and based on respect, empathy, reciprocity, consent and love. Engaging in decolonial love as praxis, the artistic production of my MDes thesis re-frames pattern drafting, garment construction and stitching methods within decolonial and relationship-based contexts. This MDes thesis prioritizes, and foregrounds, all of the relationships that make up my identity as an Aabitaawikwe of Penetanguishene, Ontario and centres these relationships as praxis towards building alternative worlds of love that honour, celebrate and mobilize Indigenous internationalism, intercultural solidarity, co-resistance and liberation.”

Justine’s research and design practice centres Indigenous fashion technologies and garment-making as practice-based methods of inquiry toward re-stitching alternative worlds that prioritize Indigenous resurgence and liberation. Her work foregrounds all of the relationships that make up her identity as a Penetanguishene Aabitaawikwe; an identity she has inherited from her family and her Aabitaawizininiwag Ancestors. 

[bayonetta-origins]

happy 10 years of dual destinies.... i drew my faves

dont repost reblogs ok

[coleslawr02]

recent doodle requests from multiple medias. not bothering to make separate posts ik scandalous

[sheep-turtles-and-pizza]

Commission for @turtsmcgurts

Metis so lovely <3

[doctorsiren]

Part 10

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