Tule Weaving Workshop with Taylor Baptiste

By: Bill Reid Gallery

Saturday, May 23rd, 2026

12:00 – 3:00 pm

Join us for a hands-on cultural experience with syilx artist Taylor Baptiste, and explore the artistry and meaning of traditional tule weaving.

In this immersive workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to create your own piece, choose from a tule mat, mini tule mat earrings, or a mini tule mat necklace, while learning about the deep cultural significance behind the practice.

Tule mats were central to syilx life: lightweight, portable structures that supported travel along waterways for trade, harvesting, visiting, and ceremony. Through this workshop, participants are invited to engage with these teachings in a meaningful, contemporary way.

Limited to 15 participants. All supplies provided.

🔴 About 🔴

Taylor Baptiste is an interdisciplinary artist from the Osoyoos Indian Band of the syilx Okanagan Nation. Raised in Nk’mip, a field of sagebrush and wild roses between the mountains and Osoyoos Lake, her practice is grounded in family, community, and ancestral history.

Drawing from syilx storytelling and ways of knowing, her work reflects an ongoing relationship with the tmxʷulaxʷ (land) and tmixʷ (all living things).

Although sculpture remains her primary medium, Taylor’s practice increasingly moves across photography, film, performance, land-based work, beadwork, and digital illustration. She earned a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2024 and now lives at home in Osoyoos, working as an artist and Cultural Coordinator at the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, supporting community research, repatriation, workshops, and cultural continuity within syilx-led spaces and futures.

These roles are deeply interconnected, each informing and enriching the other, as her artistic practice draws from community knowledge and cultural teachings, while her work at the Centre is guided and inspired by her creative exploration, creating a living, reciprocal relationship between art, land, and syilx ways of knowing.