gumisitiy (persevere) Glenna CardinalTsuut'ina, AB Size 50" x 33" Medium pendleton blanket, felt, black ink, copper penny, artificial sinew, wooden dowel The artist grew up with one foot in the City of Calgary and the other foot on the rez (the Tsuut’ina Nation). Her art practice is the direct result of the loss of her childhood home due to the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. As a contemporary artist, she deconstructs the rez reality that patriarchy and colonialism are embedded in the land, leadership, and economic development. The artist’s work revives the matriarchal voices of her Tsuut’ina grandmothers. gumisitiy (persevere) Glenna CardinalTsuut'ina, AB About the artist About the artist Glenna CardinalTsuut'ina, AB Glenna Cardinal is a multi-disciplinary artist from Tsuut’ina and Saddle Lake Cree Nation. A 2023 graduate of the Indigenous Master of Social Work program at nuhelot’ine thaiyots’I nisatmeyimakanak—Blue Quills University. She comes from residential and day school survivors past and present. Cardinal’s practice is informed by her violent displacement in 2014 from her maternal land on the Tsuut’ina Nation, which was caused by the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. She is inspired by land relationality and her artist sons. She honours the artistry of her maternal grandmothers while grounding herself through ceremony, research, language, and knowledge gathering. Photo of artist by Cateri Cardinal Dodginghorse