God bless this mess, 2024 by Daniel Bejarano 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Daniel Bejarano is an artist based in Montreal, QC. He creates monochromatic images mostly based on religion, corruption and the advancement of technology through the mediums of quill drawings and print media.

Novem (Rebozo X), 2019 by Claudia Chagoya 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Claudia Chagoya is an interdisciplinary artist born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and based in Calgary, Canada. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Calgary, and a BFA from Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her artistic practice explores topics related to gender violence and her socio-political background, using materials rooted in Mexican culture and tied to various rituals through process driven methods of creation. Her practice also incorporates the use of rose petals, salt, textiles, and most recently, human hair. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and in Canada. She has been an artist in Residence at the Royal College of Art in London, UK, the Women’s Centre, Calgary Allied Arts Foundation at cSPACE Marda Loop, and at the Ledge Gallery in Arts Commons. Claudia is also the recipient of the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society’s New Canadian Artist Award 2022.

Platform Moccasin, 2024 by Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ is a Nehiyaw Isko artist, from Bigstone Cree Nation. They currently reside in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan also known as Edmonton, Alberta. Her work often explores history, knowledge and traditional practices. Through the use of their body and language, she speaks to the past, present and future. Cheyenne’s work is rooted in the strength to feel, express and heal. Bringing their ancestors with her, they move through installation, photography, fashion, video, sound, and performance art.

Alberta, 2024 by Lauren Jacobson 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Felt 80 Lauren Jacobson is a sculptor and printmaker based in Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7 Territory). Their practice examines the way objects direct, suggest, and force the orientations of our bodies in public space. Lauren’s work with text uses humour as a device to disarm and criticize the serious tone that typically dominates art circles.

Sleep Too Much!, 2024 by Mantis 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Mantis is a beautiful baby. Baby is interested in personhood/anthropomorphism/domestication as a basic requirement for empathy. In this context, Baby explores the urge to tame and make invisible those that do not fit this criteria. Materials that can evoke an intimacy (or, the opportunity of intimacy) with viewers and participants are used. In the past, keychains, dog collars, websites, steel, simple and home electronics were used in conversation with fruit, flowers, dogs, handwritten letters, funerals, birthdays, and heart shaped stickers.

Wallflower, 2024 by Svea Ferguson 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Svea Ferguson (she/her) is a sculptor from Mohkínstsis/Calgary. Her work was commissioned for the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and has been shown across North America and abroad. Notable exhibitions include the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Esker Foundation, Viviane Art, Division Gallery Toronto, and Holland Project NV. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and TD Canada Trust.

Mount Rae 82-J/10, 2008 by Bruno Canadien 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Bruno Canadien is a Visual Artist whose multidisciplinary practice investigates Indigenous presence, kinship, and relationality in the contemporary context, through painting, drawing, installation, walking/land art, public art, and digital arts. Born and raised in Denendeh (N.W.T.), Bruno has been active in the regional arts scene since graduating from the Alberta College of Art in 1993, beginning with his early involvement with the Calgary Aboriginal Arts Awareness Society, and including his recent co-curation of Big Rock River, Contemporary Indigenous Art in an Ancient Land at the Okotoks Art Gallery (2022). His work has been included in local and national exhibitions, including the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Biennale d’Art Contemporain Autochtone in Montreal, among others. His paintings can be found in private and public collections, including Glenbow Museum, Global Affairs Canada, and the Indigenous Art Centre. Bruno Canadien is a member of the Deh Gah Got’ı́é Dene First Nation of Zhati Kǫ́ę́, Denendeh, a Deh Cho Region member of the Dene Nation. He is currently based in Diamond Valley, Alberta, gratefully grounding himself in the landscapes and traditional territories of the Siksikaitsitapi, Tsuut’ina and Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi nations.

I'll stay with you as long as you want, 2024 by Halie Finney 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Halie Finney is a multidisciplinary Metis artist originally from Treaty 8, specifically the Lesser Slave Lake Area, more specifically the hamlet of Canyon Creek. In her art practice Halie has worked in a variety of ways, from drawings, paintings, video, stop motion animation, public art, illustration, comics, and tattooing. In all the work she does, no matter the medium, Halie is informed by her family and their history and sense of place. Being deeply rooted to her home and storytelling is very important to her, the work she makes celebrates the people and the small towns within the landscape of northern Alberta. For the past eight years Halie has lived in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, where she volunteers as a core member of Ociciwan and works as an artist, a tattooist, and most recently an author as well. This past September Halie published her first comic, Cousin Bear Comes to Visit, which this poster is based off of.

(a tweet) 2024 by godam 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Felt 80 godam (he/him) is a visual artist currently residing in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). He completed a BFA in Painting and minored in Print Making at AUArts. His work is heavily informed by his experience as an emotional individual . He utilizes his own tweets and meme-like imagery as material to explore themes of desire, loneliness, and self acceptance. He considers his own work as a constructive personal coping mechanism towards a simultaneous longing and fear of intimate connection.

The Secret, 2023 by Khadijah Morley 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Khadijah Morley (she/her) is a Toronto based artist and educator with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. She creates work from a Black-feminist framework; prioritizing subjectivity as a counter-narrative.Through the process of etching and relief printing, she depicts Afro-surrealist themes where dreams, magic, and reality converge.

After Care, 2024 by Toni Cormier 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Felt 80 Toni Cormier is a visual artist and arts educator. Her work involves painting, drawing, sculpture, and video to explore motivations, power dynamics, and intimacy. With playfulness, she draws influence from the masculine world of sportfishing and reimagines the narrative, blending it with personal experience. Cormier graduated with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts with a BFA in Drawing. She won the Board of Governors Graduating Student Award for Drawing and was nominated for the BMO 1st ART Award. Since graduating, Cormier has maintained an active role in the Mohkinstis arts community as an artist and arts programmer, including her current position at National accessArts Centre as the 2D Painting/Drawing Faculty.

Web, 2024 by Nicole Shah 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Nicole Shah is a visual artist based in Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7 Territory) where she explores the concept of weaving as a way of knowing. In her studio practice, she uses traditional drawing materials as well as printmaking and collage methods to create two dimensional works on paper. Her work is influenced by the aesthetics of weaving and the language of textiles, while denying the tactile sensibilities that are often associated with weaving. Mirroring the framework of intersectionality, her approach to image making weaves together themes of visibility and concealment, hybridity and simultaneity.

Shaping Softness, 2022 by Katie Green 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Katie Green (she/they) is a visual artist creating intimate watercolour personas that are eery and ethereal. These emotionally visceral reflections provide Katie with a healing process that manifests as visual characters and scenes that explore internal emotional landscapes. For Katie, the process of painting is one of searching as they wait for something or someone to emerge. Inside this in-between presence is where surprises come forward and characters from unseen places take shape in visual ways. Being in relationship with the beings that appear becomes a form of therapeutic release, helping to both guide and nurture something within. Using these watercolours as the inspirational foundation for their practice, Katie creates murals that abstract feelings and forms into immersive scenes where fantastical beings morph and melt together within imagined worlds. Increasingly, their mural projects involve communities in a process of mask making that result in large-scale public expressions of hidden identities, emotional realities, and internal experiences.

Nurse, 2024 by Jaime Sproul 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Jaime Sproul is an artist focused primarily in drawing, working in Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7 Territory). The work reflects their personal hyper-fixation on old toys and character figurines. Rendered with pencil crayon, the artist directs the viewers focus to the texture, light and wear of these beloved figures as a way of sharing her idolization of such objects.

Blue Glow, 2024 by Levin Ifko 12 x 16in, Mohawk Via Vellum 80 Levin Ifko is a visual artist and writer. Blending practices in photography, fibre, sculpture, and installation, his visual art is playful and intimate. Writing plays a large role in his practice; utilising words to conjure queer memories, advocate for trans rights, and to imagine possible futures. As an avid collector of train tickets and a lover of street signage, he enjoys reflecting upon the roles that everyday objects have in shaping our perceptions of the world. Above all, he believes in art as a way of caring for ourselves and connecting with our communities. Levin has shown their work across Alberta as part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program, Exposure Photography Festival, and at artist-run-centres The New Gallery and Stride Gallery. His first solo show, Tender To The Flame, was shown at Esker Foundation’s Project Space in 2024. Based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary AB), Levin is heavily involved in the arts at a local and national scale. This includes regular art writing, collaborating with other artists to produce audio/video/design projects, arts administration, facilitation, and mentorship. Levin received his BFA in Media Arts (2022) from the Alberta University of the Arts.