The studio
Red satin, a bow
Still on the form. Embroidery at the chest, a dark skirt, the wall of sketches behind it.
Atelier
The table, and the one at Banff
He teaches as much as he sews. Next public date: confirm. Write if you need to be told when it posts.
Banff Centre
Indigenous Haute Couture
Faculty lead for residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Pattern development, embellishments, digital embroidery, sessions with cultural workers on beading, tufting, quilling. Twelve designers on campus, a hybrid prelude online.
Digital Embellishments, 2024. Creation & Embellishments, 1 April – 2 May 2025 — confirm as a live listing. Earlier CBC reporting described a longer series over three years.
He has been studying fur knitting with Paula Lishman in the Ottawa Valley — a technique he frames as kin to pre-contact Dene rabbit-skin weaving — and wants to bring that table north once the hand is independent of hers.
The note
On the rack
Red, formline
Wool, black graphic, white dots. Hung over the green table. The coat before it walks.
The floor
Jingles, on red
Fur, satin, a walk. The same table that teaches also sends work down a room. This is the hand, in public.
The N.W.T.
Youth, Elders, a community table
Workshops across the North and the rest of Canada: traditional construction and finishing, a contemporary fashion ideology. Not a brand class. A way of keeping the hand in the room.
Next
When the date is posted
Banff lists programs on their Indigenous Arts page. This site will carry the next one when he sends it, or when it is public. Scholarships have covered tuition, meals, lodging for Indigenous participants in past sessions — confirm each time.
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