| Description | This online project based course introduces
students to BC Métis art forms. The course
explores traditional and contemporary forms and
processes of working in modules with
caribou/moose hair tufting, pine needles, spruce
roots and birch bark, tanned, smoked moose/deer
hide quillwork, beadwork, and sash/finger
weaving. A variety of materials and techniques
are used to create small scale functional and
aesthetic objects.
. The course takes an ethnographic approach
within a historical, socio-political and cultural
context examining northern BC regional
communities in terms of Métis art forms, resource
material and techniques used in local material
production. It also explores issues of
reinterpretation, resources management,
sustainability, appropriation and protocol. |
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