Maria-Margaretta Boucher daphne beads: perler/parler
© Maria-Margaretta Boucher, Go Help Grandma with the Dishes, 2021 / Photo: Rashelle Campbell
In partnership with daphne
As part of her residency at OBORO and her visit to Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, artist Maria-Margaretta will be at daphne for their weekly beading evening to share her practice and project a memory of you.
In the grand tradition of gathering around a kitchen table to bead and talk, daphne organizes weekly beading evenings with co-founders Skawennati & Hannah Claus hosting. When they first conceived these evenings, it was with the idea of sharing their ideas and expertise! The aim of these evenings is to get together to talk about art in a relaxed atmosphere, while having the opportunity to create beautiful works of art at the same time. Everyone is welcome!
© Maria-Margaretta Boucher, Go Help Grandma with the Dishes, 2021 / Photo: Rashelle Campbell
Maria-Margaretta is an interdisciplinary Red River Michif Artist from Treaty Six Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has ancestral ties to the Métis communities of St-François-Xavier, St. Boniface, Manitoba and St. Louis, Saskatchewan. She is currently making and living on the stolen territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. Maria-Margaretta holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art+Design and an MFA from OCAD University. Her practice is an exploration of the Michif self archive, autobiographical beadwork and objects of the everyday. Using Métis identity as a place of transformation she questions how memory, personal experience, motherhood, and ancestral relations influence her understanding of self.
