Every year I participate in the Twitter Art Exhibit by sending in a postcard sized artwork for sale.
This year the show is being hosted by Urban Native Youth Association in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
UNYA’s goal is to realise funding to build and run the Native Youth Centre. The Native Youth Centre is opening doors not only for Indigenous youth, but for the whole community.
This project presents an opportunity to take meaningful steps on the path to reconciliation. Every contribution received will help create a community of caring in support of Indigenous youth.
It may seem like a small contribution but, the sale of one art card alone would provide 4-5 meals, a day's bus ticket for a youth program, art supplies for up to 5 youths, or two hours of youth care counselling.
I admit, I was worried I would be unable to donate this year as I recently closed my Twitter account.
In previous years it was necessary to be an account holder, in fact participating was the reason I opened an account over a decade ago. I had heard about the project originated by artist David Sandum of Norway and wanted to be part of it. You can read more about it’s origins and history in my previous blog post here: 2022 Blogpost
I am happy to share, it is no longer necessary to have an account in order to donate a card for sale.
Here is my 2023 entry: Title: ‘The Weave’.
Each individual line contributes to the making of this image as a whole.
As in life, individual threads are required to come together, to create a sum total greater than themselves.
‘The Weave’
I spent the past 5 years living in Puget Sound (off the coast of Seattle,USA) and was privileged to learn a little about the local indigenous tribe of the Suquamish and their traditional ways of living as Southern Salish Coast peoples.
The Squamish of BC, Canada are Northern Salish Coast peoples. The Salish Coastline is such a beautiful part of the world and its PNW peoples share many of the same beliefs and wonderful ways of living.
I hope UNYA reaches its goal and can build the Native Youth Center, a most worthwhile project. Thank you Twitter Art Exhibit for the opportunity to contribute.
Mark your calendars: The Exhibition & Sale will be on June 24-25, 2023 at the Pipe Shop Venue at the Shipyards in North Vancouver.
TAE would like to acknowledge the 2023 event venue is located on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are honoured and grateful to be able to hold this event on this land.
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