Helen Pelletier Workshop: Make a Pair of Ojibway Puckered Toe Moccasins (Builder in Residence)

Join Anishinabe artist, Helen Pelletier, and make a pair of Ojibway Puckered-Toe Moccasins! Start the class by cutting out your moose hide and learning about moccasin making. Using sinew you’ll learn the different stitches needed to sew your moccasins while assembling your pattern pieces. Leave with finished moccasins that you can wear inside or outside.

This workshop makes a terrific gift and there is no experience necessary!

💲220/person

We are excited to welcome Helen Pelletier as part of our Builders in Residence Program, which welcomes canoe and kayak builders and makers from across the country to share their skills, stories, and knowledge in an immersive, hands-on setting.


ABOUT HELEN PELLETIER

Helen Pelletier is an Anishinabe kwe from Fort William First Nation. Helen has worked with Wiigwas for twenty years and recently developed a relationship with winter birchbark and sgraffito style etching. Helen credits her Wiigwas knowledge to family, community, elders, and friends. Helen has exhibited her work in “Their Breath in Beads” (2019) and the Northern Ontario Juried Exhibition in 2019 and 2022 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Helen also exhibited her work at the Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival marketplace in the Northern Ontario Spotlight in 2020, and in a solo show, wiigwas Manidoog descendants, at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 2023. Her current show, Wiigwas Manidoog Visiting lək̓ʷəŋən Territories, is on exhibit at the Aunty Collective in Victoria, BC.

You may also like the following events from The Canadian Canoe Museum:

• Next month, 9th July, 09:00 am, Helen Pelletier Workshop: Make a Birch Bark Basket (Builder in Residence) in Peterborough
• Next month, 11th July, 09:00 am, Helen Pelletier Workshop: Winter Bark Etching (Builder in Residence) in Peterborough

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