Art gallery acquires birchbark skirts by local artist Helen Pelletier

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery received support from the Ontario Arts Foundation to get two wiigwas for its permanent collection

THUNDER BAY — The Thunder Bay Art Gallery has received an award for the acquisition of two birchbark skirts made by local artist Helen Pelletier.The Ontario Arts Foundation provided the gallery with funding through the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program Acquisition Grant."I'm excited to see where Helen's practice takes her," Smart said.

Pelletier, from Fort William First Nation, has worked with birchbark for twenty years, and harvests it in the early spring and summer from Anemki Wajiw . "You see the beauty, wisdom and value in wiigwas. Miigwech for allowing Indigenous artists' visions to come alive," Pelletier said. She often completes her works with home-tanned hide and other natural materials sourced from friends, family and fellow artists.

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