Tansi

Claiming Indigeneity, and Queerness through education, while breaking down generational cycles of oppression utilizing Therapeutic art making are overarching themes in my creations. Storytelling is how many of my two-spirited ancestors kept traditions, spirituality and culture alive throughout aggressive  genocidal actions of our governments and society. Accessibility to communities excluded from hierarchical practices motivates my intention of sharing art in vast public spaces. Beading, weaving and pottery are a few historical mediums that I have been introduced to as a Studio Arts student while learning new technological skills and tools allowing me to create digital art, websites, and audio-visual creations that have given me a two-eyed experience in my art education. 

 

Currently working towards my third year at MacEwan University, as a Studio Arts student, partaking in a Studio Arts program, opting towards Indigenous Studies as much as possible, creating space for myself in my cultural events such as pow-wows, round dances, metis scarf weaving workshops and beading classes. Joyfully learning traditional Indigenous ways of being, and applying stories and concepts to my artistic practices. Queerness and Indigeneity are common themes in my work,as I navigate the reclamation of my culture, diminishing the effects of colonization and consumerism. My art has taken a natural route toward sculptural recycling in the creation of surreal natural elements, generally in the form of Ungulates. Recycling materials into art allows the artist freedom from anxiety using expensive mediums while initiating resourceful, creative thinking.