Join Anishinabe wiigwas artist, Helen Pelletier, and etch a birch bark medallion!
Hands hold down a piece of birch bark. The bark has been scraped away to reveal a design of swimming turtles and a sun.
Learn about wiigwas while you plan your design and learn about etching winter bark. The inner cambium of the birch tree is scraped away leaving lighter bark underneath and creating a pattern or image of your choosing. A timeless art that continues today, this technique is used on birch bark canoes, mukuks, jewellery and many other items made from birch bark.
This workshop makes a terrific gift and there is no experience necessary!
💲155/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. Learn more at canoemuseum.ca/builders.
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.
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