Ceramic Tile Trivet featuring Indigenous artists fibre art To lead a creative life

To lead a creative life is to experience dizzying highs and gloomy lows

McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO’s Indigenous art collection

is a heartbreaking and intimate examination of the tragedies of the nineteenth and twentieth century

I saw an opportunity to capture a both a lifestyle and a landscape that were previously foreign to me as a native New Yorker

Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Ceramic Tile Trivet featuring Indigenous artists fibre art To lead a creative lifeCeramic tiles can be hung on the wall or used as a trivet, measuring 15cm x 15cm. The artists, or their estates, receive a royalty on each and every tile trivet sold. Dawn Oman was born in Yellowknife, North West Territories, of Yellowknives Dene and Welsh descent. Directly descended from Chief Snuff, who signed Treaty 8 with the Canadian Government, she began to draw as a means of silently amusing herself and staying out of her foster families' way.