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Art Workshop with Crystal Semaganis: Explore Your Creativity With Acrylics!
November 18, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Crystal Semaganis will be guest instructor for a painting workshop atthe Huron County Museum, to focus on Crystal’s unique approach to herart and visual storytelling, as well as techniques including imagery andcolour.
This art workshop is open to artists of different experience levels andabilities. Recommended for adults and young adults. Art supplies (including acrylic paints, 9” x 12” canvases) provided. Pre-registrationrequired. buyonline via Eventbrite! or at the front desk during regularhours.
Artwork and beadwork by Crystal will also be available for purchase atthe museum throughout the day. Crystal will also be speaking at the museumthat evening.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Crystal Semaganis is a Plains Cree/Chippewa Creefrom the Little Pine First Nation, Treaty No. 6 in Saskatchewan. Adescendant of Poundmaker, Crystal is an activist, writer and artist whoseareas of interest include the Sixties Scoop, Intergeneration Trauma,Residential School Survivor Families, the Creative Arts, Pow Wow andRegalia Making and Community Building, as well as combatting Indigenousidentity fraud. Crystal makes her home today in Northern Ontario. In 2018,her family released a podcast with CBC called Finding Cleo that was thestory of their 46 year search for her oldest sister, Cleo SemaganisNicotine—and during that podcast, Crystal was using her adopted name ofChristine Cameron. Crystal was recently longlisted for the 2023 CBCnon-fiction prize for kisâkihitin.
Huron County Museum (110 North Street)
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