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INDIGENOUS TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE & MEDICINE ARTWORK CONTEST
Every year, for almost two decades FORED has offered a contest designed to get Indigenous youth to work with their elders to share this valuable history as a legacy through art, photography and video storytelling. One of our annual youth winners, Quinn, who happens to have autism, was featured in the Northern View and other BC newspapers.
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FORED Award Inspires
Post-Secondary Art Dream
Lynnea Holmstrom, Indigenous youth art winner from Osoyoos Indian Band
"As for her future, art looks to be very much in the centre of it all. “I would like to travel and do art,” she says when asked what she sees for her future. Lynnea will get her first small taste of that dream when she makes a journey to Vancouver in July to attend a two-week art program for teens at Emily Carr University’s Junior Arts Institute (JAI).
Alanea explained that she contacted the JAI after hearing about the program. “As soon as I said that she had won the contest and sent them a photo of her work it was like, ‘Okay, she’s in!’”
-Oliver Times Chronicle. Also in Penticton Western News.
Touching Indigenous Art
Sentinel Sec. Gr.11 student and Métis Nation artist Rebecca Collier
“I was able to connect with my Métis roots through jigging, beading, and hands-on cultural activities learned from community leaders and Elders,” said Collier.
“I was guided in this piece by Elder Dory LaBoucane, a gifted beader and knowledge keeper who generously shared her teachings.”
Indigenous Youth Wins FORED Contest
A West Vancouver student has taken home a prize for an annual Indigenous focused artwork contest, for a piece inspired by missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW).
Entitled ‘A forlorn Haida mother remembers her daughter’, the artwork, which won the annual FORED BC Society contest, represents the anguish and devastation felt by mothers of the countless missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, said its artist, 15-year-old Rockridge Secondary School student Keenawaii Schubert-Johnson.
NEWS ARTICLES
A selection of news articles featuring FORED BC programs and youths.
YOUTH TALENT
featured in BC newspapers
So many youths have contributed to our contests. We salute their accomplishments.
