Tufted Pendants w/ Amber Boyd

Date: September 29th, 2024

Time: 1:00-4:00pm

Cost: $40 per person (not inclusive og GST or registration fees)

Audience: Ages 16+

Description:

When you sew, do you end up all in knots? If so, then this Indigenous traditional art form may be for you! Tufting beautiful flowers involves sewing and knotting bundles of caribou hair to leather or canvas/fabric. Come out and learn how easy it is to make your own colourful flower pendant. All supplies are included.

Instructor Bio:

When not working at her day job, this Métis writer can usually be found tapping the keys of her sticker-covered laptop, crafting her latest bewitching tale. A couple of Amber’s published short stories are in the Amazon number one best-selling anthology, Above and Beneath. Her winning 2019 Kemosa scholarship submission, “Howling at the Moon,” is published as a stand-alone short story and within the anthology Undeath by Chocolate and her 2022 Kemosa Scholarship submission, “Spirit Bead,” took second place in the annual Writers’ Guild of Alberta contest. Amber holds a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education and is currently finishing her MFA in creative writing at UBC. In 2021, she won a spot in the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle program with her essay “Picking Up the Crumbs,” which later made the shortlist for The Malahat Review’s 2021 Constance Rooke CNF Prize. In April 2022, she joined the University of Calgary Faculty of Continuing Education’s creative writing instructor team for a term as an Indigenous Writing Instructor for their Writing 500 course.

When she’s not writing, she paints, beads, and creates works of art. Her artwork and photography have appeared in the Indigenous Motherhood and Matriarchy Exhibition at Arts Common, Mino-Pimatisiwin: Reclaiming the Good Life photography exhibition at the Grande, the Truth & Reconciliation Exhibition at Arts Common, the Honouring Our Children Exhibition at Sparrow Artspace, the Reconciliation Exhibit at Southcentre Mall, and the Wasakamapiwak Wearable Art Collective Exhibition. Amber also sits on the Board of Directors for the Indigenous Editors Association and represents her Nation on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for Banff National Park. She lives in Cochrane, Alberta, with her husband, two kids, and infamous black cats.