🌞 Saturday, June 7 | 11 am – 4 pm 🌞
Celebrate the season with us at our Summer Indigenous Artisans Market! Join us for a vibrant day of community, creativity, and culture as we showcase the work of over 15 talented Indigenous artists and makers.
Explore a beautiful selection of handcrafted jewelry, artwork, apparel, and more, perfect for summer gifting or treating yourself to something special.
🎟️ Included with Gallery admission.
MEET THE VENDORS
Blackfish Beaders
Blackfish Beaders is a Tsimshian mother-daughter duo from the Gitga’at territory of Hartley Bay. Their handmade creations reflect the beauty and traditions of the Great Bear Rainforest, using vibrant imagery, fur, and cedar harvested from their territory.
From greeting cards that honour cultural practices to earrings and jewelry crafted with seal pelt, fox, rabbit, and woven cedar, their work speaks to both ancestral knowledge and contemporary Indigenous expression.
Their pieces have been featured at cultural events across B.C., and are available at the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre and the Crest Hotel Gallery in Prince Rupert.
Carmen Redunante
Carmen Redunante is an emerging artist of Nisga’a, Tsimshian, and Chilean heritage. Rooted in environmental activism, her work explores beauty, resilience, and the urgent need to protect the natural world. After two years at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art, she recently completed her BFA at Emily Carr University, using her practice to reconnect with her Indigenous identity and deepen her understanding of Northwest Coast art.
Cedar Roots Collective
Cedar Roots Collective is an Indigenous-led business founded by artists Phil Gray (Ts’msyen/Cree) and Hayf Abichahine (Palestinian/Lebanese) in 2024. They collaborate with Indigenous artists from across Turtle Island to offer ethically made apparel, art, jewelry, and handmade goods. Grounded in justice, sovereignty, and reciprocity, Cedar Roots ensures artists retain ownership and receive industry-leading royalties. Each piece reflects a deep connection to culture, community, and contemporary creativity.
Jada Creations
Jaimie Davis is an award-winning artist and business owner from the Gitxsan and Nisga’a Nations, currently living on Laxyuubm Ts’msyen traditional territory in Terrace, BC. She belongs to the Laxskiik (Eagle) Clan, Wilp Sakhumhiigookh, and her eagle name is Sagayt Gabuux, meaning “When the wind blows, everything sprouts.”
Jaimie's business focuses on revitalizing her culture through wearable art. As the sole creative designer, she specializes in cedar weaving, wood sculpture, jewelry engraving, and more.
Jasper Berehulke
Jasper Berehulke (he/him) is a two-spirit, transgender artist from the Syilx Okanagan territory, whose creative practice and advocacy focus on identity, cultural reclamation, and community building. Growing up in the Okanagan, Jasper dedicated himself to creating safe and inclusive spaces for queer youth, fostering a sense of community and belonging that continues to influence his work today. He now works in museums as an advocate for Indigenous communities in Vancouver.
Karen Francis
Karen Francis is a Northwest Coast Indigenous artist of Gitxsan, Nisga’a, and Tlingit heritage. She is Gitxsan from Lax Gibuu (wolf clan) through her mother, with cultural teachings from her late grandmother, Rena Benson, a hereditary chief. Karen has participated in public artworks like Reconciled Futures at the Museum of Vancouver and has exhibited in various galleries across Vancouver. She teaches workshops on traditional art practices, such as button blanket making, and creates commercial art through local companies, with her work sold globally. Karen holds a BFA from Emily Carr, specializing in oil painting, and also works in acrylics, printmaking, wood carving, and beading, with pieces in private collections worldwide.
Moth Latte
Jude is a queer 2S artist that loves working with bright colours and unique designs through a variety of mediums. Their artistic influences come from a variety of places that vary depending on the medium. His beaded earrings, flat stitch pieces, and embroidery combine Métis beadwork with contemporary influences from his day-to-day, such as cartoon characters or a particularly colourful pair of socks. His graphic design is heavily influenced by Métis beadwork and dot painting, Woodlands style paintings his mom always had, and the traditional Coast Salish art he was taught in school. Jude is Métis through their mother, and their heritage comes from St. Boniface. Their family names include Lariviere, Lambert, Nault, Lagimodiere, and Gaboury.
Monday May Jewelry
Modeste comes from a mixed background. She is Esk’etemc of the Secwépemculecw (Secwepemc Nation) on her mother's side, and from the Ewe people of Togo on her father's side. Monday May Jewelry (MMJ) is an Afro-Indigenous jewelry brand reflecting Monday's diverse heritage. Her designs combine traditions, symbols, and stories from her Secwépemc and Ewe heritage. You can also see elements inspired by her decade-long career as a showgirl in her pieces.
Renovatio Creative Co.
Vanessa Webster, an Indigenous (Nuxalk & Cayuga) media artist in Vancouver, weaves urban life with ancestral echoes. Rooted in East Van, she transforms challenges into vision. Through Renovatio Creative, she reclaims space, telling stories of resilience, identity, and rebirth—offering a lens into what it means to create as an Indigenous womxn.
Red Cedar Woman
Red Cedar Woman is an Indigenous-owned company that creates unique, authentic Indigenous items, including cedar bark baskets, hats, mats, Salish Blankets, and throw pillows dyed with traditional plants. They offer basket weaving workshops in the Lower Mainland and have recently launched bath and body products, along with a new line of Sage Blends for smudging.
They are grateful to utilize natural resources from their traditional territory or through trade, following the practices of their ancestors.
Sage + Solstice
I am a 3rd-generation beader and member of the Lytton First Nations band. Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, I have been beading for four years. I take inspiration from my roots in Lytton and add a modern twist.
Salish Thunder Designs
I'm a Coast Salish woman artist with 28 years of experience and counting. I work in many different mediums, including carving wood, engraving silver, and creating hand-painted merchandise.
Salty Dog Indigenous Beaded Items
I am Métis Cree from Northern Alberta. I presently live in Chilliwack, BC. I made and sourced all my items myself. I offer Ribbon Skirts, Beaded Earrings, Bracelets, Medicine Bags, Tobacco Bags, Pins and more.
Potlatch Spirit Xʷsalikʷ tiyuɫəbàx̌ad
Quinault Indian Nation/Duwamish Ancestry: A spirit power that provides abundance, creating handmade jewelry with the spirit of honouring my ancestors.
TeleKitnetic Art
Jay, a Wet’suwet’en LGBTQ+ artist and 2024 Capilano University Animation graduate, creates bold formline art that blends ancestral design with unconventional subjects, think animals from beyond these lands and pop culture icons reimagined through a Northwest Coast lens.
A proud member of the Likhts’amisyu (Fireweed) Clan, Jay began learning formline under family guidance in 2021 and brings a passion for animation and creativity to every piece.
Totem Design House
Erin Brillon (Haida & Cree) hails from the Laana Tsadas Eagle Clan of Skidegate Haida. As the founder of Totem Design House, an award-winning eco-friendly Indigenous lifestyle brand, Erin blends tradition with modernity from her studio, gallery, and boutique located on K’omoks First Nation, her husband Andy Everson’s ancestral territory. She advocates for Indigenous sovereignty in art, business, and holistic healing, tirelessly supporting cultural revitalization. Erin views economic reconciliation as a movement that requires bold leadership and cultural integrity. By merging traditional wisdom with contemporary innovation, she aims to ensure Indigenous businesses thrive while exemplifying authenticity and resilience.
Unkcekiha
I am 2-Spirit and belong to the Dakota Sioux of the White Cap First Nation and the Saulteaux Anishinaabe of Key First Nation, both located in Saskatchewan. I also have white heritage, with my father being of Dakota and Saulteaux descent and my mother being a first-generation white immigrant settler. I was raised with my culture from birth and grew up surrounded by both traditional and contemporary artists, which inspired me to study my cultural art and traditions.
The artwork I create is influenced by Sioux style, as well as Plains and Woodland Anishinaabe traditions. I produce prints, stickers, beadwork, jewelry, and various sewn crafts.
CONTACT US
Please contact Amelia Rea at area@billreidgallery.ca should you have any questions.