Beading community comes together in Thunder Bay – Anishinabek News

February 21, 2024

THUNDER BAY — The Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s Aanikoobijiganag: Beading Symposium featured six workshops as well as a Curatorial Panel moderated by Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg’s Melissa Twance and an Artist Talk by Aamjiwnaang’s Nico Williams. The symposium was held Feb. 8-11 at the Baggage Building Arts Centre, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Confederation College, and Co. Lab Gallery in Thunder Bay.

“The whole symposium went really great, it’s been three days of getting to know really great folks involved in the beading community,” says Twance, emcee at the symposium. “We’ve had workshops, we’ve had presentations from artists, and it’s just been really great to come together and to talk about the work that we do.”

Twance says she enjoyed the workshops, including the Birchbark Basketry workshop by Fort William’s Gail Bannon, the Edge Beading workshop by Shannon Gustafson, and the Fish Skin Tanning workshop by Leanna Marshall.

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