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Teresa Walker above in her studio/shop holds up a piece she was working on for the recent Fashion Speaks Couture Fashion Show in Kamloops.
First Nations girls and women, who have been victims of violence and are missing, or have been murdered. Several items in red, were laid out on display in her sewing area. “I normally don’t like red, but I’ve pulled some fabrics for this show,” she said. Her red themed pieces include a mini skirt, and she was in the middle of creating a traditional red coat for the theme. After making the transition from the film industry in Vancouver, where she spent over thirty years and taught at the Vancouver Film School, Teresa decided to delve into the exploration of her own identity and style as an artist in Boston Bar, before relocating to Hope. Teresa has spent the past decade devoted to researching traditional fibers, and focusing on
clothing, jewelry, hats, bags and footwear, combining traditional and contemporary elements such as mixed media baskets, throwing-pottery and clay. The innovative artist is working with traditional materials such as pine needles, clay tiles with images, cedar bark, birch bark, soapstone, horn, silver and bone in her work. Now based in Hope with her two girls, Teresa is taking her experience and opening her doors to the public. The studio/shop is still in the process of fine tuning, but classes have commenced and she has a list of upcoming classes and events on her Facebook page. For more information or to check out her designs please contact Teresa at 604-8603276, heavennearthnativeart@hotmail.ca, or facebook.com/Heaven N Earth Native Art.
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From left to right: Charity Joe, Judith Pete, Demi Peters, Ruth Peters — Ashley Callingbull is featured with local fashion designer Lyn Kay Peters (centre) in the white buckskin dress she originally appeared in for the talent portion of Mrs. Universe (she recently wore the dress at the Kamloops Fashion Speaks Couture Fashion Show on September 16,) Eric Prytula, Trisha Charlie, Sherice Hulbert, Melody Andrews and Dayna Nelson. In our September 24 edition (page 2,) a photograph of 2015 Mrs. Universe adorned in the white buckskin creation of Peters’ was absent. She reports that she is thrilled with Callingbull’s win and is excited for what this means for First Nations people across Canada.
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Local artist and fashion designer Teresa Walker is opening a new studio/shop space called Heaven N Earth Native Art in Hope, that offers a plethora of courses in art and design, as well as a place to showcase her unique and prolific body of work. Teresa considers herself a mixed-media artist and fashion designer, using different mediums to express her vision. A British Columbian by birth and an Aboriginal of Nlahzkampx, Okanogan and Lakota descent, Teresa is self taught and uses art as a platform in which she combines both traditional and contemporary mediums, while exploring her native heritage — a heritage she was largely divorced from earlier in her life. “People would ask me to put a native spin on something and I thought, why should I know that?” she told The Hope Standard of people seeing her as First Nations first. “I never thought of myself as a First Nations artist initially — I was just an artist.” Teresa’s studio is spacious, creative, and fun. Envisioning a place where people could come together to learn and grow creatively, while exploring hidden talents in a safe environment, was paramount to acquiring the space for the artist/teacher. “Native women have long been forgotten and ignored,” she said of her people, and of her desire to allow First Nations and non-First Nations men and women a voice in her studio. A shelf full of fierce and feminine warrior masks are on display in the studio, depicting important rituals of Teresa’s people and their warrior like symbolism, which includes an inclusion of the role of women. Teresa was in the middle of completing her final pieces for the Fashion Speaks Couture Fashion Show in Kamloops mid-September when she met with The Hope Standard — a red themed show dedicated to and in honour of
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