Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada | May, 2015
As emerging artists with Arts for Children and Youth, Jasmine Wemigwans and I were invited into the Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum to create images inspired by the footwear and history presented. As an illustrator with a love of patterns, I was blown away by the designs on the shoes in this exhibit. I studied the patterns that were skillfully beaded and sewn onto the shoes and created a piece that commemorated my favourite patterns (symbolic of me and my work) meeting the patterns of the exhibit.
If you’d like to know more about the exhibit, the Bata Shoe Museum provides information here: http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/beauty-identity-pride/
