Discipline Category: Traditional Arts

Taanshi! Bre dishinikashoon.

I am an emerging interdisciplinary artist currently based in Manitoba, Canada. I am a proud two-spirit, Red River Michif being with an overactive imagination, a wild sense of humour, and a taste for chaos that leads my work in any direction it pleases. That’s what keeps it fun!

I seek out rich colour and texture in the mediums I work with. These are featured alongside naturally-sourced materials (such as raw and live-edged wood) and found objects. Often, my choice of materials holds subconscious intention for the project to come.

I love to work intuitively with a focus on experience in the immediate present. This particular approach allows me to be more viscerally in-touch with the ideas that arise while I’m in the act of physically creating. In this way, I consider art-making a deeply personal ritual, where I’m deliberately engaging in conversation with my spirit, surroundings, experiences, and roots. I am always finding profound connections through my artworks.

My broader goals involve exploring the crossroads of paint, design, and conceptual art through experimentation. I am actively seeking new ways to harmonize my eccentric fields of interest in order to reach for more ambitious -- and powerful -- projects.

I love working with wood and making functional pieces like spoons, hairpins, page-holders, spice scoops etc.

Loïk Raymond is a Two-Spirit Innu who grew up in the Uashat area and now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Ottawa and works as the Outreach and Experiences Coordinator at Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum, where he leads community engagement, programming, and communications. Loïk is deeply committed to Indigenous Rights, land sovereignty, and climate justice. They believe in amplifying youth voices and traditional knowledge as essential to building a more just and sustainable future.