SWAIA ARTIST Profile

Wanesia Spry

Name
Wanesia Misquadace
Tribe
Minnesota Lake Superior Chippewa
Main Classification
Jewelry
Classification #2
Diverse Arts
Classification #3
Website

SWAIA Booth History

Summer 2024
PLZ 40
Winter 2024
Wanesia Spry
Portfolio Example & Artist Statement

My work involves sculptural birchbark contemporary baskets with metals and storytelling in a sculptural annishinabae form. Also using birchbark biting in my work which is birchbark that is hand gathered in Minnesota on my Reservation, after harvesting birchbark I peel birchbark into fine thin layers of birchbark that feel like tissue paper. I then bite on the folded edges with my eye teeth to create design, patterns and storytelling through the art of birchbark biting a traditional art work I have reawakened at Santa Fe NDN market and continue to.

2024 Portfolio

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