Tashya Orasi

Keeyoukaywin (Michif word for visiting and learning with kin)

Traditional Métis sash bag in deer leather with glass beads (12" x 10")

Traditional Ojibway snowshoes. Hand steamed, bent, mortised, planed and assembled ash snowshoes with acrylic paint, nylon lacing and mixed fibres (pair, 3 ft x 1 ft wide each.

Artist Statement

Situated in the Indigenous search methodology of Keeyoukaywin, this series embodies my “re-searching” (Abolson, 2022) of a Metis heritage erased by colonialism. These pieces are how I have come to know these ancestors, and a reflection of time spent with their stories, lifeways, and teachings through visual culture. It is reclamation and resistance.

Tashya Orasi

Tashya is a PhD Candidate in Education at Lakehead University. As an artist, teacher and researcher, she is involved in interdisciplinary research projects and currently lecturers in the Faculty of Education. Her work seeks to decolonize data and knowledge in research, and to use the arts as a pathway to these aims.
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