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Hamilton Spectator
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Tse'K'wa Heritage Society names summer 2025 artist in residence
CHARLIE LAKE, B.C. — With the backdrop of the Tse'K'wa cave behind her, Adrienne Greyeyes works with dedication and intent below a canopy, the carcass of a moose stretched as she scrapes hair from its hide. Greyeyes, who works as an Indian day school coordinator with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, has for a portion of the summer gone back to an undying passion: art. She has been announced as Tse'k'wa's artist in residence for the summer of 2025. Greyeyes holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Vancouver's Emily Carr University of Art and Design. According to a press release, Greyeyes will be incorporating 'combined teachings from Dane-zaa and Nehiyaw Elders to develop her hide-making skills' during eight weeks in May and July. The residency is fully funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Greyeyes is of Nehiyaw ancestry from Bigstone Cree Nation in what is now Alberta, but was born and grew up in Fort St. John. 'Moose hide holds nostalgia and safety to a lot of people,' said Greyeyes during a break. '[It] brings so many people back to when they were younger. 'This is such a meditative practice where I find myself re-visiting a lot of those things and it just puts me in that kind of head space.' In traditional Indigenous cultures, preparing animal hides for purposes such as clothing, shelter and art requires a labour-intensive process. This involves hide cleaning; soaking; fleshing; scraping; softening using the animal's brains, known as 'braining'; and smoking to give it a tanned appearance. The finished hides will be utilized in Greyeyes' printmaking, artwork which she says will display 'the reciprocal relationship that we have with the land we grew on through using hides that were grown on the same territory that my body has also been nourished from,' and acknowledge 'our relationship is ever-changing and challenged due to colonial lifestyle impositions.' 'Not only is it sustaining us in being in clothing and being part of our ceremonies,' said Greyeyes. 'But it also teaches. You're really close to this animal the whole time you're working with [it] and you're really close to that spirit.' Greyeyes will hold open-studio hours at Tse'K'wa in Charlie Lake, where the public can view her work and ask questions. Greyeyes will be at the Tse'K'wa cave on May 14th, 15th, and 20th. The second half of her residency will be on July 7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 16th and 17th, when people can learn more about her. The time for all days is between 11 a.m. and 12 noon, and admission is free. The Tse'K'wa cave is an Indigenous-owned national heritage site , owned by Doig River First Nation, West Moberly First Nations and Prophet River First Nation. Tse'K'wa, translating to 'Rock House,' is a cave with history tracing back some 12,000 years, and was used by Dane-zaa ancestors since the Ice Age. More information about Greyeyes' residency is available on the Tse'K'wa website .
CBC
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Neko Case says the music scene in Canada is 'much healthier' than in the U.S.
When the American singer-songwriter Neko Case was a kid growing up in Washington state, she thought she was Canadian. "In the '70s there weren't a lot of media outlets," she tells Q 's Tom Power in an interview. "We had CBC … and so I remember being in school as a little girl and being asked what country we live in, and I said Canada because I just heard Canadian media all the time. I thought we were Canadian." Case is best known as a solo artist as well as a member of The New Pornographers, one of Canada's most beloved indie rock bands. She recently released a new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, which details her path to becoming a Grammy-nominated artist, and how she found her home in the Canadian music scene. WATCH | Neko Case's full interview with Tom Power: In 1994, Case moved to Vancouver to attend the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she found a thriving community of artists. "It was the most positive change that I remember happening in my life," she says. "The Canadian music scene is very different than it was in the United States. If you're in a band in Vancouver, you have to just be OK with the fact that your bass player is going to be in five other bands because the population just isn't what it is in the United States. There's just less people. So there was more of a potluck sort of feel rather than a competitive feel. I think that was the healthiest thing I've ever been a part of." [In Vancouver,] there was more of a potluck sort of feel rather than a competitive feel. - Neko Case While it seems more typical for a Canadian musician to move to the U.S., rather than the other way around, Case says she thinks the music scene in Canada is "much healthier" than it is below the border. She's happy to be considered an honourary Canadian. But there is a question of whether she uses Canadian or American spelling. Power notes that her breakthrough hit Favorite off her 2001 EP Canadian Amp is spelled the American way, without a u.
