Discipline Category: Traditional Arts

Sep 16

Icelandic National League of North America Artist Residency Award

Applications are now open for the 2027 Icelandic National League of North America Artist Residency Award. The award is open to Icelandic artists, to artists with Icelandic heritage, and artists […]

Aug 31

Fall Classes at Arts Inclusion

Classes in the Arts start on Sept 12, 2026. Arts Inclusion offers classes in Creative Drama, Improvisation, Musical Theatre, Creative Art-Making, Arts Expressions, Online Dance and Painting with Acrylics. Locations […]

Aug 21

Mending with Tradition

In this multifaceted exhibition, Jannuska explores Indigenous storytelling through a large mixed media comic and a variety of mixed media art pieces. ‘The Wolf and the Eagle in the Rain’ […]

Nichol Marsch

Nichol Marsch (she/they), is a Metis artist/artisan from rural Manitoba (Treaty 1). Her practice is primarily based in large-scale multifaceted installations involving a variety of mediums and grounded in fine craft processes. Nichols favourite mediums include ceramics, textiles, wood, and collected/found objects. In addition to their conceptual visual art Nichol is also an active beadworker and practices a variety of traditional crafts processes which often make their way into her more conceptual work.

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Indigenous Art

Urban Shaman Contemporary Indigenous Art is a charitable, not-for-profit artist-run centre located on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Urban Shaman is an Indigenous led gallery that presents contemporary Indigenous art with integrity while remaining rooted in our diverse Indigenous cultures.
Founded in 1996, Urban Shaman continues to be a nationally recognized leader in Indigenous arts programming and one of the foremost venues and voices for Indigenous art in Canada. Urban Shaman is dedicated to the Indigenous arts community and arts community at large.

Manitoba - Winnipeg

Heather Sinclair

I am an Indigenous artist whose work is rooted in storytelling, healing, and connection to spirit. Through painting, I explore the relationship between land, identity, and intergenerational knowledge. My art reflects both personal experience and the teachings passed down through Indigenous ways of knowing.

Bre Quirion / Thunderbird Brain

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.

Vi Houssin

Vi Houssin is a transgender beadwork artist and drag performer. Her family is of white settler and Red River Métis ancestry. Her Métis family names are Ritchot, Poitras, Larence and Plante, and her ancestors held scrip in St. Vital and St. Boniface. She is a proud member of the Two-Spirit Michif Local and a citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation. Vi works and lives in Winnipeg, Canada on Treaty 1 territory where she was born and raised.
Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Kash

Kash Gaur (he/they) is a Queer Artist of Colour who immigrated to Canada a few years ago. They are a green-wood carver. They really enjoy working with wood. What really motivates him to carve is making functional pieces such as spoons, hairpins, page-holders, spice scoops and much more. He continues to hone his wood carving skill, at the same time expanding their knowledge for metal work and carving antlers.

Loïk Raymond

Loïk Raymond (he/they) is a HoH, Two-Spirit mixed Innu/French Artist who grew up in the Uashat area and now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are a self-taught beadwork artist. His beadwork captures the essence of the natural world and his experiences within it. They believe that traditional knowledge is essential to building a more just and sustainable future. They are currently exploring the possibility of migrating from beadwork to mosaic work.