with Megan Samms
Site 16 – Union House Arts
Saturday, September 9
1–5 PM
All materials provided
Tea and refreshments served
Join us for a drop-in Indigo Social with artist Megan Samms. This relaxed, social event offers a sharing of space, time and indigo! Samms will prepare vats of indigo plant dye for visitors to learn about the process and try their own hand at dying. Participants can work with organic cotton bandanas that will be provided, or bring their own items to dye. Expect to get messy!
Samms’s work for the Biennale, a (gentle) reminder, is located nearby on the Port Union Boardwalk (Site #16).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I want you to know that I care deeply and I work from a place of love. I hope to generate more, and more, and more here in my homeplace—I work and make to cultivate an ancestral and place focused practice.
Katalisk, Ktaqmkuk, is one of my traditional territories where much of my kin network is too; I am also connected to Kumcheen, or Lytton in so-called British Columbia. I am an internationally Indigenous person of Mi’kmaq and Nlaka’pamux descent; I come from the Samms, Noseworthys, Halls, Gagnons, Cennames, Watkinsons, and from Spintlum.
When I’m working, in our gardens or studio, I think and make moves intergenerationally. I believe that by thinking and working that way, more and more life, love and care, work and effort will be generated. I hope that my practice(s) serve then, now, and yet-to-be relations. I explore decolonial values, perspective, care, and love by examining story-in-place, living-in-place, specificity, and resultant relationships by making work to generate and continue more story and living. I’m interested in complexity, multiplicity and fragmentation, what it is to consider and heal, the interwoven and complex interrelationships that arise from this.
I tend to work with a diversity of media including fibre and handweaving, natural dyes, paint, and words in my creative practice. Though growing food and tending to bees is a creative work too.
—Megan Samms