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An Island Mi'kmaq artist is doing her part to honour her ancestors and cultural values through an ancient art form using birchbark in her quillwork. Melissa Peter-Paul started doing quillwork in 2014, ...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (KOTA) - Lakota Made Quillwork is a business that specializes in handmade crafts. “Specifically, porcupine quillwork, which is an art that pre-dates beadwork and other types of ...
Porcupine quills are a precious material for Indigenous artists because they can’t be purchased just anywhere – artists must source the material themselves or trade for them.
Kay Sark is out on her back deck on Lennox Island First Nation in Prince Edward Island, sporting one yellow rubber glove. But the Mi'kmaw woman isn't wearing the glove to clean, she's wearing it to ...
During the Dene Quill Art project, two Athabascan artists and an ethnographic conservator shared quillwork techniques and develop new ones by studying historic museum objects. They shared their ...
The Lennox Island Mi'kmaq Culture Centre is seeing a growing number of visitors this summer, with more people wanting to learn about Indigenous culture first-hand. Sarah Myers, project manager at the ...