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Rose Moses is Ojibwe, from Henvey Inlet First Nation Band. She is a self-taught artist and has drawn on the inspiration of other First Nations artists. She up-cycles a lot of her materials when working on a project. We meet at her farm and she takes me on a walking tour of her seemingly endless work. From crazy quilts to doll making, beadwork, collages, painting, furniture rescue and restoration. She walks me through building after building and room after room filled with all of her projects. We talk about her deep passion for saving furniture from landfill and her support of youth and First Nations projects through sales of her art and furniture donations.

We also have a very open and honest conversation about the work she does with high-school students. She shares mixed media collage art that is filled with symbolism of the pain and process faced by residential school survivors, her first-hand experience with her loss of culture and her own connection with her mother's experiences of residential school. It's a very moving and meaningful conversation that I was honoured to experience.

Both Beading and Doll making has been part of the First Nations culture for a long time and it possesses great beauty, Rose considers working on them as sacred work. She has been making dolls for over 30 years and goes to schools to teach doll-making. She just recently taught herself how to bead and has enjoyed putting bead-work in frames, on her dolls and even on her own clothing.

You can buy her work at https://indigenousartscollective.org/rose-moses/

• Henvey Inlet Powwow, Pickerel ON
• Kirk Kove Cottages, Arden ON
• Kuriosity Shop, Northbrook ON

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Thanks to Isaac Matthews for the music, follow him on Instagram @hesjustakid