Piikunii high school students Alissa and Alison Skunkcap, Jasmine Bechel and James Trombley paint each other’s faces at the Fire In the Mountains Festival near the Blackfeet Nation, Montana, youth learn the restorative powers of heavy metal. From @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

“Hélène” (2023) by Hans Op de Beeck. (MDF, polyester, and coating, 90 x 142 x 110.5 centimeters.) Image © Studio Hans Op de Beeck

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, mistress to Napoleon III, achieved notoriety as a Second Empire beauty. She embraced the new art of photography, having hundreds of her portraits taken to create her image: here ‘Lady of Hearts,’ 1863. Fiercely independent she also possessed a strong wit…

Joi T. Arcand’s (Muskeg Lake Cree Nation) ‘ayâtaskisow,’ her creative use of family archival photos and videos to document her family’s farming legacy on the reserve, now at The Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan.

‘We are excited to announce the participants selected for Remai Modern x Cité internationale des arts upcoming residency program. Starting in January, Saskatchewan artists Zachari Logan, Gabriela García-Luna and Paul Seesequasis, will begin a three-month

Emma Avatuk smiling. Photographed in Killiniq (Nunavut) in 1961 by photographer Rosemary Gilliat. 📷 Rosemary Gilliat | Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum

Excited to join the conversation tomorrow at the MacKenzie Art Gallery! 📍 Regina, SK 🗓 Friday, Nov 14 | ⏰ 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM with Joi T. Arcand and Felicia Gay for “The Family Archive:" on Indigenous art, memory & archives. 👉 mackenzie.art #IndigenousArt #GatheringGreatPlains #MacKenzieArtGallery

‘Now I see the bones in the river I feel the wind through the pine And I hear the shadows a-callin’ To a girl with a dark turn of mind… You know some girls are bright as the morning And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind’

Alvin Lee: on par with Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page: the stars just never aligned for him. Still, a legend to those who know. youtu.be/lSYFJB7o9ZQ?...

Stunner: Kwakwaka’wakw-style “Urchin Mask” by artist Tim Alfred @vanartgallery.bsky.social

‘Open my legs Lie down with death We kiss, we sigh, we sweat… I twist, I bite The foxes chatter in the night’ Witch Dance | Everybody Scream Florence Welch, Mark Bowen

Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010 (feathered headdress, painted corset, dance robe, sequinned robe & boots) by Skeena Reece. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides’ @vanartgallery.bsky.social

Icelandic tech expert explaining how TVs work in a language we can all understand. youtu.be/75WFTHpOw8Y?...

Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer (1891-1992) of Kahnawake, in Broadway Brevities, the 'notorious' gossip rag of the 1920s. As PWD, Esther Deer was a very successful vaudeville actor, performing across stages, from New York to Paris. Labeled as one of 'the most beautiful women in...

Hello Vancouver. Your late fall attire is especially captivating today.

Inuk singer Tanya Tagaq's cover of Cobain's 'Rape Me.' If you don't know her discography, look her up. Fearless artist. youtu.be/pCsCKKt-wac?...

If you’re visiting Seattle I highly recommend Salish Sea Cruises, owned by Kyle Griffith, enrolled member of the Chinook Indian Nation, a narrated cruise of Elliot Bay, with gorgeous views and also, importantly, the Indigenous history of the Salish Sea peoples.

Come as you are: Krist Novoselic’s Gibson bass (prototype) in the lobby of the Hotel Max in downtown Seattle.

Art wall, Seattle

"It's been 17 hours and 15 days..." music.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUD...

When you know you’ve checked in, in Seattle

Truss bridge at Dorothy, Alberta. 📷iPhone 16 Pro

Walking the trail last evening, a large dog sauntered past me, noticed no collar, and then no owner. Just a cousin, mêstacâkan, minding their own business.

‘Raven and the first men,’ Bill Reid (Haida). Museum of Archaeology, Vancouver, BC: ‘It wasn’t long before one, then another of the little shell brothers, timidly emerged. Some of them immediately scurried back when they saw the immensity of the sea and the sky and…

‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”

Dylan and Peckinpah. Katy Jurado and Slim Pickins. youtu.be/22wnmw53h3Y?...

Full house at Museum of Anthropology tonight for ‘Beyond Fires & Floods, Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes,’ with Rick Harp, Judi Kochun, Tanya Talaga and Mark Trahant, and myself.

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

Seattle-bound soon. A time to recharge and recalibrate in a city I like. Pictured, one of the places you may find me.

That fleeting fall light

Jane Birkin, Paris, 1970s. 📷 Rex Features

'So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes Or fairy tales of blood and wine It's turtles all the way down the line' music.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBV...

Quechua photographer Martín Chambi displays his sense of camp in his 1934 self portrait riding on Mario Pérez Yáñez’s Indian motorcycle. The first motorcycle in Cuzco, Peru. 📷 Martín Chambi | Jan Mulder Collection

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Q&A on ‘People of the Watershed: The Photography of John Macfie,’ now at The Muse: Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenora, Ontario, until Dec 21. Http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/paul-seesequasis-john-macfie-9.6937661

Nick Drake's last photo shoot: "One photo from that session endures the best for me. Annie Sullivan remembers: “I had my dog Gus, a golden retriever, with me. I’d brought him along because everybody liked Gus, and also dogs have a way of getting through something, where people don’t. Nick didn’t

Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris. 📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)

The Family Archive: A conversation with Joi T. Arcand, Paul Seesequasis, and Felicia Gay. Friday, 14 November at The MacKenzie Art Gallery from 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM. Regina, Saskatchewan. Part of The Gathering Great Plains Series. Free. mackenzie.art/event/the-fa...

Along the boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. From 'People of the Watershed: Photographs of John Macfie' now at The Muse: Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenore, Ontario until Dec. 21. themusekenora.ca/.../people-o... 📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate

Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was

“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what colour they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less a bad shake. I thought I had the instinct toward championing the cause.” - Gordon Parks

"For the past 6 years, (Rose B.)Simpson has been working on her second art car: a decrepit 1964 Buick Riviera, which she’s calling Bosque, that she’s been meticulously restoring from the inside out" Simpson's LEXICON, til Aug. 2, De Young Museum, San Fransicso. www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...

A very hot Judge and a very cold Vladdy are not a good combo for the Jays in the upcoming ALDS.

Part of the 'People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie' exhibit. The Ontario tour continues at The muse: Lake of the Woods Museum in Kenora, until Dec. 21. "John Macfie's vivid and stirring photographs show a way of life on full display - the world my ancestors inhabited and that my

VANCOUVER! Whatcha doing Fri Oct 24? Come see our free public panel, "Beyond Fire & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes," part of a larger invitational gathering of climate-related storytellers, hosted in MOA Great Hall at UBC! sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

Awww Our groceries came in produce bixes, so i made bunk beds out of em.

Fallon has always been a useless idiot. The type of guy, the moment things go south, who will stab you in the back. And shrug and say 'sorry.'

My mother, Mary (nee Seesequasis) Ogresko. First photo around 1955, after her graduating from St. Michael’s Residential School, she attended the School of Nursing in Humboldt, and was among the first cohort of Indigenous nurses in Canada. Her strong spirit was

Sorry. I have always felt uneasy about the performative aspect of this day. Prefer to spend it in quiet contemplation. #NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation

The Bond theme song in my mind music.youtube.com/watch?v=eePl...