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Arlea Ashcroft is a French Anishinaabe/Saulteaux multi-disciplinary artist from Treaty 1 Territory, with ancestral connections to Minegoziibe Anishinabe (Pine Creek First Nation). Her creations often explore themes of mixed-blood identity, cultural heritage, mental health, and gender dynamics. Her art serves as a platform for storytelling and activism, particularly advocating for Indigenous communities and addressing social issues.
Ashcroft's style is recognized for its punk rock aesthetic and raw, confrontational elements, often challenging Western artistic norms by portraying subjects with sharp, vibrant, and sometimes dissonant visuals. She integrates personal experiences, community narratives, and historical contexts to create works that are both visually striking and emotionally evocative.
Her work has received local, national, and international attention, not only for its artistic quality but also for its role in fostering dialogue around identity and resilience. Ashcroft's impact highlights the transformative power of art as a medium for truth-telling, continuing to channel her raw, rebellious energy into her visual, multimedia, music, and literary works. She is happiest chasing sunsets and camping fireside under the stars.

Rebecca Driedger is a versatile creative who is passionate about photography, video production, writing, and art. Their journey as a visual storyteller began in 2013 with the purchase of their first DSLR camera. Initially drawn to nature and wildlife photography, they soon expanded their skills to capture portraits, live events, and dynamic performances, working with musicians, live theatre productions, and organizations like Brandon University, Klinic Community Health, and The Gargoyle Theatre.
While Rebecca's work behind the camera evolved, their love for storytelling remained ever-present.
Now balancing creative writing, design, photography and videography, Rebecca is focused on expanding their craft while preparing for future academic pursuits in creative writing. Whether creating art for fun or crafting stories to inspire others, Rebecca continues to blend their diverse skills into a dynamic and evolving career as a Theatre Creative and Freelance Media Creator.

Avery Helm is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in their home in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty 1 Territory. She worked in design and advertising studios for 8+ years before making the leap to full-time freelancing. They're a jack-of-all-trades, and have experience doing branding + identity design, publication design, web design, social media, character design, plush design, art for video games, and merchandise design, among others!
She loves working with progressive individuals and helping to tell stories through illustration and design. She's passionate about human rights, education, and protecting the environment and all who inhabit it.
Get in touch at hello@averyhelm.ca if you would like to work together!

I am a muralist and an arts educator/facilitator residing in the Eastman region of Manitoba. I am passionate about making art that inspires and engages the public, and that visually enhances public spaces. I administers group mural projects within communities that speak of my strong commitment to making art accessible as a tool for self-expression and healing. My work through the Artists in the Schools program brings me from school to school throughout Manitoba, working with students throughout the research, design and creation of murals to beautify their schools. Mosaic is another art-form I enjoy and have been incorporating into my artwork and community Projects. I have facilitated several community and school mosaic projects that are both beautiful and functional. Using largely discarded materials, these mixed media mosaics bring communities together in the collaborative creation of tactile art for their schools and communities.

born and raised in Saskatchewan and moved to Manitoba in 2013. She is an avid artist and enjoys art in any form. From sewing, knitting, crocheting, and beadwork, there is very little in the form of arts she does not do. Northern Manitoba has expanded her love for the arts with all its beauty, and although she misses the prairies, she wouldn’t trade the northern lights for the world. She is the Northern Champion for Flin Flon and the area and is happy to have the opportunity to share art throughout the north.

Urban Shaman is an Aboriginal artist-run centre dedicated to meeting the needs of artists by providing a vehicle for artistic expression in all disciplines and at all levels by taking a leadership role in the cultivation of Indigenous art.
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Urban Shaman presents contemporary Indigenous Aboriginal art with integrity while remaining rooted in our diverse Aboriginal cultures.

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The Manitoba Craft Council is for people who love contemporary craft: professional artists and artisans, collectors and connoisseurs, DIYers and armchair enthusiasts. It’s for people who value the originality and quality of the handmade, who find meaning in making. It’s for the dreamers and schemers who seek to reinterpret the material and cultural traditions of the past through a contemporary lens. It’s for people who have to forge, carve, weave, fold, sculpt, knit. And for their friends and supporters. It’s for you. See, smell, touch, explore the myriad expressions of contemporary craft in Manitoba and be part of a community that is shaped, motivated, and defined by its love of craft.

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