This two-part workshop is presented alongside Olivia Whetung: inawendiwok and will teach beginner and advanced-beginner geometric peyote stitch skills.

In the first workshop (Nov 22), participants will learn basic peyote stitch including flat even-count peyote and even-count tubular peyote. This session will focus on learning the skills and producing test swatches rather than producing a finished piece.

The second workshop (Dec 6) will build on those skills, covering increases and decreases in peyote as well as stitch-in-the-ditch techniques. In this session, participants will create a triangular pendant which can be added to a chain or cord and worn in a variety of ways (as a necklace, keychain, car dangler, bookmark, or more).

This workshop series is free, but registration is limited to 12 participants. Please complete this form to reserve your spot.

If you have any questions or there’s anything we can do to support your participation in this event, please email Hannah Keating at [email protected].

Olivia Whetung is anishinaabekwe and a member of Curve Lake First Nation. She completed her BFA with a minor in anishinaabemowin at Algoma University in 2013, and her MFA at the University of British Columbia in 2016. Whetung works in various media including beadwork, printmaking, and digital media. Her work explores acts of/active native presence, as well as the challenges of working with/in/through Indigenous languages in an art world dominated by the English language. Her work is informed in part by her experiences as an anishinaabemowin learner. Whetung is from the area now called the Kawarthas and presently resides on Chemong Lake.