NWT Arts

Lena Moosenose

Region:

North Slave

Community:

Whati

When I was 10, my family lived in the bush near Whati. One day I saw my mother sewing and I asked her where I could get some beads. She told me I had to start by cutting the uppers before doing the beading. Back then you couldn’t just go to the store to buy beads, so she told me to undo some...

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Myrna Pokiak

Region:

North Slave

Community:

Yellowknife

Much of what inspires me as an artist is the cultural teachings I experienced at a young age as I traveled on the land and sea with my family. Knowledge, skills and traditions were passed down to me as it was generations before. The gifts I was given through history, northern cultures, the...

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