Tickets are available on Eventbrite (see below)by donation starting at $1. Ages 14+
Donations go to Sparrow Arts Society, a not-for-profit organization, which will go towards more workshops by the wasakamapiwak collective. If you would like a free ticket or are unable to obtain a ticket through Eventbrite, please get in touch with sandra@sparrowartspace.com.
When you sew, do you end up all in knots? If so, then this traditional Indigenous art form may be for you! Tufting beautiful flowers involves sewing and knotting bundles of caribou hair to leather or canvas/fabric, then trimming the hair to shape. Join us and learn how easy it is to make your own colourful flower pendant or ring. All supplies are included.
This workshops is taught by Amber Boyd who is part of the Wasakamapiwak collective residency. The wasakamapiwak collective thanks the Calgary Arts Development for the Original Peoples Investment Program grant for making this residency possible!
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Amber Boyd is a Métis Writer & Artist. When not working at her day job, this Métis writer can usually be found tapping the keys of her stickercovered laptop, crafting her latest bewitching tale. A couple of Amber’s published short stories are in the Amazon number one best-selling anthology, Above and Beneath. Her winning 2019 Kemosa scholarshipnsubmission, “Howling at the Moon,” is published as a stand-alone short story and within the anthology Undeath by Chocolate and her 2022 Kemosa Scholarship submission, “Spirit Bead,” took second place in the annual Writers’ Guild of Alberta contest.
Amber holds a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education and is currently finishing her MFA in creative writing at UBC. In 2021, she won a spot in the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle program with her essay “Picking Up the Crumbs,” which later made the shortlistn for The Malahat Review’s 2021 Constance Rooke CNF Prize. In April 2022, she joined the University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education’s creative writing instructor team for a term as an Indigenous Writing Instructor for their Writing 500 course.
When she’s not writing, she paints, beads, and creates works of art. Her artwork and photography have appeared in the Indigenous Motherhood and Matriarchy Exhibition at Arts Common, Mino-Pimatisiwin:Reclaiming the Good Life photography exhibition at the Grande, the Truth & Reconciliation Exhibition at Arts Common, the Honouring Our Children Exhibition at Sparrow Artspace, and the Reconciliation Exhibit at Southcentre Mall.
Amber is the elected District Captain for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government (previously known as the Métis Nation of Alberta) for District 4. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Indigenous Editors Association and represents her Nation on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for Banff National Park. She lives in Cochrane, Alberta, with her husband, two kids, and infamous black cats.