Our heart lies inside teaching and our community. Perhaps this part of our humanity is the deepest grieving during this time. The laughter, the stories, the transformation inside of cultural revitalization is the root of who and what we do. We had big plans! like many of you did in March. And like many of you, we had to get even more creative, more adaptive, and more resilient. Thanks to a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council we were able to teach an 8 week zoom beading and moccasin class. Co teachers Michelle Defoe and Sarah Agaton Howes gathered together with 20 makers in the making from across the nation. Challenging ourselves to teach what is a hands on...
Our IG Live series revs up this week with our conversation with Eighth Generation's CEO and founder Louie Gong. Louie shares about his vision as an artist, their collaboration with Heart Berry, and a tour of the Eighth Generation studio.
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In our ongoing efforts to teach our cultural arts,
we created this diagram to aid Makers.
Need Patterns and photos step by step?
Check out our Nookomis Obagijigan book
www.heartberry.com/collections/all/products/nookomis-obagijigan-grandmothers-gift-moccasin-pattern-book
Also, check out our tutorials on YouTube!
Are you following our Instagram Live series? We are hosting a series of casual fun conversations Thursdays at 11 am around cultural art, special announcements, and exciting work happening. Watch our origin story here, how has Heart Berry changed over the years? Today (June 25, 2020) Hannah and Michelle chatted over coffee about moccasin making, and how this artist wants you to be a maker of moccasins! Next week we will have an exciting interview with photographer Nedahness Greene about the role of photography in Indigenous communities. Watch for that July 2 at 11 am. Photo by Nedahness Greene And Thursday July 9, we are very excited to be having a conversation with Inspired...
Seeing our art around? Us too and its absolutely intoxicating. PC Nedahness Greene And right now so much of it seems like no brainers. Of course, there should be the art of the original people greeting visitors as they enter Duluth. But it takes the light shone by our mentors, like Louie Gong, to show us what we aren't seeing in the dark of the hustle. "Louie has made me cry, more times than I would like to admit." Heart Berry CEO, Howes admits "But everytime I listen, he's dead on. And I know that he genuinely is invested in me." Mentors hold us to a high standard because they can see it. So much has changed in such a...
