Explore your creativity and be inspired by the newly installed mural The South | Zhaawanong by Chief Lady Bird. Join us each month for a different art making activity inspired by this contemporary artist’s work, and take time to reflect on the Anishnaabe teachings present in her art.  

Using a bold array of colours, Chief Lady Bird represents the connection of past and future by looking to the southern quadrant of the medicine wheel. In The South | Zhaawanong, the artist contemplates the work of her ancestors and crafts a future narrative that features healing at its centre. She pays homage to the Woodland artists that laid the groundwork in dismantling the taboos of painting sacred stories, making room for the contemporary Neo-Woodland artists of today. Chief Lady Bird (born 1993) is an Anishinaabe artist from Chippewas of Rama First Nation, whose work focuses on the connection between land and body, Anishinaabe cosmologies, and the subversion of colonial narratives.

While visiting our Art Cart in Robert Harding Hall, we encourage you to spend some time perusing the books available to you in the Edward P. Taylor Library and Archives. The library lounge bookshelves will feature a display of material from the artist files on several Woodland artists, with a selection of books illustrated by contemporary Indigenous artists. 

Free with admission. Recommended for families with toddlers.