JANUARY 3, 2025
Submissions open
May 31, 2025 8pm PDT
Submissions close
Week of July 14, 2025
Finalists Announced
September 27, 2025
Exhibition and voting opens
October 17, 2025
Voting closes
October 18, 2025
Winners announced
$925.00
Size
17" x 10" x 10"
Medium
Hide, seed beads, lichen, sinew, nylon thread
Sowing Seeds emerged from a quiet longing — a reclamation of cultural fractals held in memory, body, and bloodline. Through my father, we are Northern Cree; through my mother, Irish, Scottish, and English. These inheritances meet in my hands, in the making, in the remembering. This work lives in the in-between and symbiosis — presence and past, known and seeking. It is an offering to belonging: to self, home, and the lands I now walk as guest. Rooted in kinship with Lkwungen territory, Sowing Seeds is a return, a renewal, a reverent listening to what has always been there.
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Natalie RollinsVictoria, British Columbia
Natalie Ashley is an interdisciplinary artist and member of the Driftpile Cree Nation (Treaty 8) through her father. Raised on the prairies and shaped by her family’s creative legacy—her Kokum’s beadwork, her uncle’s carvings, her mother’s textiles—her practice lives in the in-between: memory and body, longing and land. Of Northern Cree, Irish, Scottish, and English descent, Natalie’s work is a reclamation and return.