Some origin stories have a hairy start. For Chantal Cardinal, a Montréal-born, Vancouver-based felt artist, getting her hands dirty – really dirty – while helping to shear the sheep that produce the wool she uses […]
Erin Brillon is from the Haida and Cree nations (Status: Skidegate Haida). Her Haida name is Kalga Jaad (woman of Ice) inherited by her maternal grandmother, is from the Laana T’sadas Eagle Clan of Skidegate […]
SGidGang.Xaal, Shoshannah Greene of the Staawas XaaydaGaay was born and raised on Haida Gwaii and now lives in Vancouver. She is a Haida artist, graphic designer, animator, random adventurer, fancy coffee addict, cat lover, and […]
Giulia de Oliveira Borba is a Brazilian designer, writer and educator who lives in Vancouver. She has a bachelor of arts in visual communications from Loyola University Chicago and a master’s degree in design from […]
Natalie Ellis is a multi-hyphenate creative from Vancouver where she lives with her husband and pets. Natalie grew up in a Sikh neighbourhood in Abbotsford BC. She would describe her family as the Von Trapp’s […]
When you see Russna Kaur’s paintings, you are first met with broad brushstrokes, beautiful bold colours, layers of paint that are peeled away and then layered again. You experience thick textural patterns created from her […]
Randi Obenauer is a leatherworker from Powell River, B.C. Throughout her craftwork, there is the ineffable quality of Randi herself. A loving mother, fiercely loyal friend, reader, swimmer, dreamer, motorcycle rider, and firestarter. She is […]
Tanja Hinder and I met in the same way most platonic business marriages/design partnerships begin…on Craigslist. In 2017, she hired me…fresh out of design school, to assist her – at the time we were a […]
Vinay Giridhar grew up in the south of India, in Kerala, a tropical paradise filled with green rice paddies and coconut groves. Amidst the rich culture of this land, he started drawing, painting, and writing […]
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