Xaanja Free
Xaanja is an Indigenous NWT Metis Artist, wife and mother of four.
Xaanja is a creative being and design thinker, Xaanja is a multi-media artist who creates art in different media: acrylic paintings, pastels, charcoal, ceramics, printmaking, wire sculptures, beading, as well as digital media--film,video editing is fun! Xaanja loves to write poetry, silly songs and short stories. Xaanja is available for commissioning art and art demonstrations for printmaking.
Xaanja creates printed cards and printed gift prints from her designs:
Nature is Free - handprinted cards and framed prints (4x6 inch) and Mahsi Cho -prints (8.5 x 11 inch)
Nature is Free reminds us to share nature -freely- to live.
We are not born with coins in our hands to make life accessible because Mother Nature provides all our needs. Air, Earth, Water, Plants, Man and Animal--Nature provides all our needs. Life is Free.
Nature is Free is also an Acrylic Painting (36X24), Wire Sculpture (4X6), Beadwork (4x6) and digital design(s) with photoshop colourization and textured images--for printed cards, postcards and stickers.
Mahsi Cho is a Gift of Language With All Who View the Art.
When One Sees the Art One Remembers a Gift of Thanks and Shares Our Language for Revitalization.
Mahsi Cho was created with the intention that the print would be purchased as a gift for someone. It is meant to be a gift of thanks, a beautiful piece of art to a person being thanked, others who may view the art will ask, "What does mahsi cho mean?" The owner will share their story about how they've come to receive this gift as thanks. Thus the words, Mahsi Cho, will be known to be thank you very much to those who have never known what those words meant before, now has meaning through its gifted presence.