Jamie is a First Nations artist and educator from Pasqua First Nation, living and working in Regina, Sask. Graduating in 2010 from the University of Regina with her BFA in Ceramics, she received a scholarship from the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Since then, she has been sharing her passion of all things creative with students of every age from Regina and its surrounding communities. She has been Artist in Resident for Mackenzie Art Gallery, Sakewewak First Nations Artist Collective, Regina Public Library, and Heritage Community Association, as well as a summer researcher position at the First Nations University of Canada. She has taught classes and workshops all over the city and province, and is currently an instructor for Ranch Ehrlo’s Paper Crane Studio.
In the bast decade she has been working as an artist, curator, facilitator, administrator, teacher, board member, student, designer, and project coordinator, consultant and massage therapist… just to name a few. Always busy, but always creating!
Her work uses bright, bold colours, irony and a variety of mediums to tell stories and give voice to topics she finds interesting, including history, identity, dreams and nature. From large scale murals, to small scale collages, her work has a sense of humour and wonder than often drifts between dreamy surrealism and painstaking realism.
She can often be found at home with her two children, in her kitchen studio, hard at work on another project or painting, listening to loud music and dancing (terribly) between brush strokes.