Medicine Bag Workshop October 18
Schedule
Sat Oct 18 2025 at 12:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Basement, 10516 - 82 Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Alberta T6E 2A4 | Edmonton, AB
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Medicine Pouch Workshop with 2 spirit Métis artist Tracy Bradley.The workshop will include all materials for making a bead trimmed medicine pouch. Participants will learn how to work with traditional materials in this fun and interactive session. Included will be introductory beading skills, and materials to begin their beading journey, as well as medicines for themselves. Teachings about medicine pouches and their significance. There are options for materials: traditionally tanned hide, commercial hide and vegan if desired too!
Tracy Bradley (She/They) is a 2S multi-disciplinary artist, birth worker and entrepreneur. She is of Cree-Metis and European descent with membership in The Metis Nation of Alberta.
Tracy’s practice involves community building, investigation of traditional materials in contemporary styles, creating and supporting opportunities for learning, and sharing of traditional skills.
She has been taught by relatives such as her mother Janice Simpson, the late Roxanne Tootoosis, Ekti Margaret Cardinal, Noella Steinhauer, and many others.
She works primarily in textiles, hide, beads, sculpted wool, natural stones, fur, birch bark, acrylic, water colour, ink and oils.
Tracy has been a birth worker and aunty-mentor with Kihew Awasis Wakamik Society since its beginnings. Tracy is a member of the IAM – Indigenous Artists Market Collective.
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Where is it happening?
Basement, 10516 - 82 Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Alberta T6E 2A4Event Location & Nearby Stays:
