welcomes Governor General award winner

April is Native Craft Month at Plimoth Plantation. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Wampanoag Indigenous Program by learning about these cultural arts.start to design your own personalized custom bobbleheads. Hear from the Museum’s Native artisans about the crafts they have learned over generations and witness their talent first-hand. Each week in April offers a different craft, culminating in a Native Craft Fair Sunday, April 28.Shopping for Cheap stainless steel earring at Wholeslae Fashion Stainless Steel Crystal Earrings.

During the month of April, one of four crafts will be highlighted from 1 to 3 p.m. weeklong in the Wampanoag Homesite. The first week of April, starting Monday, April 1, learn about Wampum, the white and purple shell used in making jewelry and other adorned crafts. The following week, starting April 8, guests can hear all about beadwork and see how glass, bone and copper beads can be fashioned into clothing and accessories. Weaving and quillwork demonstrations start on April 15. Learn how bags and belts are made from native hemp, and how quills are weaved into Native dress. Finally, woodworking will be showcased April 22. See how wood is crafted into hatchets, clubs, spoons, bowls, cooking paddles, ladles and more. All demonstrations are free with the price of admission to the Museum.

Native Craft Month ends in celebration of artists at the Native Craft Fair,Source make your own bobblehead Head Products at Resin Crafts, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 28. Native vendors and artisans from all around the region will be demonstrating their skills and selling jewelry, basketry and other handmade crafts created from traditional materials. Children’s crafts, including cornhusk doll making, and games are also available hourly starting at 10:30 a.m. The fair will be held in the courtyard of the Henry Hornblower II Visitor Center.

Rebecca Belmore is serving as the Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario's artist in residency from April 20 to May 15.

The GNO was eager to welcome her, but now they have even more to boast about, since Belmore was recently one of seven winners of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

While she's in Sudbury, Belmore will be working on a land-based project. Her work is described as “disarmingly elegant,” and engaging toward the resistance of Indigenous peoples.

“Her performances, sculptures, videos,Unique tungsten jewelry can be found at Forever Metals with ceramic inlay, photographs and installations evoke the connections between bodies, land and language, and the violence that colonialism has enacted upon them,” a media release from GNO stated.

“Whether a vigil for missing women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside or a photograph of a deep scar, healed and adorned with beads, her work is imbued with ritual that plays out on the body, on the land and in the elements.High quality stainless steel necklace chain with durable color are ideal for wholesale.”

She has a long list of honours, including the Canada Council's Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton Award, as well as an honorary doctorate from Toronto's OCAD University.

She is originally from Ontario, but spent many years in Vancouver. She now lives in Winnipeg.