Join MJ Belcourt Moses for a workshop including hands-on examples and concluding with a medicine pouch workshop.

Scale, hair, hide and quill. Gifts from mother earth, transformed into beauty, enhancing, and reflecting adornment of the Metis and Nihiyawak (Cree) peoples. Intricate attention is given to understand these natural fibres to manipulate them into fine art.

MJ Belcourt Moses will provide a lecture that includes hands on examples and concludes with a Medicine pouch workshop!

Medicine Pouch Workshop

A medicine pouch is used to carry that which heals; physically and spiritually

Provided Materials:

• Commercial leather (rough cut out)

• Beads

• Silver conch

• Special object (asiniy)

Provided Supplies:

• Scissors

• Leather punch

Melissa-Jo Belcourt (MJ) comes from a rich Métis ancestry and possesses a wealth of cultural skills, acquired from Métis and First Nation Elders and Knowledge Holders throughout northern and central Alberta. Her passion lies in her cultural heritage where she continues to research to find better understanding of her ancestral legacy she follows. As a certified instructor, she has taught decorative arts and creative skills within Indigenous cultural art programs and continues to support the community both aboriginal and non-aboriginal in facilitating workshops to teach both the history and traditional art skills.

Recognized in November 2006 with the city of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Citation and Performance Award for representing Alberta at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival by exhibiting and demonstrating her Metis roots in art. In 2009, MJ was awarded the Aboriginal Role Model of Alberta Art Award for her work as an Artisan and as a recognized cultural art instructor. On September 8th, 2018 through the initiative of Canadians for a Civil Society MJ received the Daughter of the Year award. January 2019 MJ accepted the role as Edmonton’s Indigenous Artist in Residency.

For the safety of all visitors, masks are required on site.