Fish Scale Art

English
Adele Kalinek (Campbell)Beaufort Delta
Beaufort Delta

Over the years, I tried to watch everything my mother did. That’s how I learned. In the summertime, she would make a lot of dry fish and share it with the...

 Alizette LockhartNorth Slave
North Slave

I’m adopted from Fort Good Hope in the Sahtu Region and grew up in Yellowknife with my family that raised me with their Metis and North Slavey Dene cultures...

 Charlotte OvervoldNorth Slave
North Slave

Hello my name is Duncan Sangris im born and raised in Dettah Northwest Territories i go on the land gather food for my family and community members i also...

 Duncan SangrisNorth Slave
North Slave

I love to sew and create unique hand-stitched embroidery work. Right now, I make parkas, purses  and mukluks, but I can create pretty much anything!  I use...

 Eleanor EliasBeaufort Delta
Beaufort Delta

Art is all in the eye of the beholder, as they say, and inspiration is everywhere if you really look. A lot of my own inspiration comes from family and my...

 Jennifer BuckleySouth Slave
South Slave

Jorja Mulder is a Métis born & raised Fort Resolution, a fifth generation descendant of Francois Beaulieu II. She is a self-taught traditional artist...

 Jorja MulderSouth Slave
South Slave

I come from a large family of traditional artists. My mom started teaching me to sew when I was very young, aged seven or eight. We’d put work into the...

 Mary Jane NigiyokBeaufort Delta
Beaufort Delta

I do stained glass artwork. I started working with stained glass during the Winter of 1979, while living in Calgary where I took a class and learned how to...

 Maxine BourkeSouth Slave
South Slave

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,...

 Myrna PokiakNorth Slave
North Slave

I was born and raised the Northwest Territories.  My parents were subsistence harvesters and lived on the land.  Hence, my birthplace Stanton, NWT which was...

 Pauline Saturgina TardiffNorth Slave
North Slave