Melissa Connors Photography
1.82 GB of moving images.- 1 .MTS ; (27 min., 4 sec.)
Artist talk session with Roxanne Martin / One Star Woman
Roxanne Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) is a Anishinaabe teacher, visual artist, children's book designer, jingle dress dancer and cultural activist. A graduate from the Cambrian College Theatre Arts Production. an honours graduate from the Bachelor of Fine Arts/minor in Anishinaabemowin studies from Algoma/Shingwauk University, Roxanne inspires her community to work with visual interpretations, storytelling and oral history of her surrounding lands and waters of lake Huron and Superior. As an Anishinaabe community practitioner, artist and seamstress, Roxanne's artwork and her practices blend personal biography with humour, cultural belonging and social critiques to engage her viewers in social conversations. She’s an award recipient for the Ashoka Changemaker Innovative approaches for First Nations people and received the MIchaelle Jean Foundation Youth Solidarity Project Recognition Award at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Martin is currently a member with the 2015 Teach for Canada cohort and is currently working on the Ojibwa territory of Lac Seul First Nations in northern Ontario to better the education for indigenous youth. She has established a small business from home for Ojibwamowin Children's books (Baby WayNa) and she is the god daughter and great niece to the late Cecil Youngfox. Mr. Youngfox received the Aboriginal Order of Canada in the 1980s for his artwork in preserving his native heritage through his vivid, sensitive images of his native cultural traditions.
Biography taken from Martin's professional webpage.
