Location: Chapel Hill, NS
"I've done quite a bit with a lot of different materials and I keep trying new materials whether they're artificial or natural. It has to work with the idea or the image or the notion I'm trying to get solidified."
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Location: Dartmouth, NS
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Location: River Denys, Nova Scotia
"Basket Weaving has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My mother has been a big influence in my life as to the different techniques and styles of baskets. It is my intention to both preserve the art and form of the traditional techniques of Mi'kmaq basketry, yet continue to create new forms which will allow me to highlight traditional heritage."
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Location: Fredericton, NB
"My creative spirit, idenitity as a woman and sense of divinity are all interconnected. It is through my art that I express to the world my core beliefs about what is sacred and vital in my life."
Brian Jungen is one of Canada's best known young artists. In 2002, he won the $50,000 inaugural Sobey Art Award. In 2004, the Warhol Art Foundation granted the Vancouver Art Gallery $50,000 to organize a travelling exhibit of Jungen's work, which often involves the transformation of everyday objects.
He fashioned Northwest Coast Indian style masks out Nike sneakers, and a gigantic whale skeleton out of plastic lawn chairs.
Location: Hornby Island, B.C.
"I love the challenge of transforming these trees into objects of beauty: a hat for feasts, ceremonies or dancing, a basket for gathering food or storing personal treasures." (Wave Length Paddling Magazine, Gabriola Island, BC Oct/Nov. 2000)
Location: Whycocomagh, NS
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