Join us for the latest session of Collections for Community to help increase community access to the Museum’s Anthropology and HBC Museum Collections and make connections with local artists and makers. This event is free, but space is limited to 15 participants in order to facilitate an intimate learning environment.
This next session is Sunday, February 16 from 10 am to 2 pm; bannock, tea, and coffee will be provided, but please feel free to bring a lunch since the program runs over the lunch hour and exploring collections is hungry work!
We are very excited to welcome KC Adams and Jaime Black-Morsette as our featured artists this session, and we will be showcasing the incredible birch bark bitings from the Anthropology collection alongside other beautiful belongings.

KC Adams
KC Adams (Ininnew/Anishinaabe/British) is a registered Fisher River Cree Nation member living in Winnipeg. KC is a relational maker, educator, activist, and mentor who creates work that explores technology in relation to her Indigenous culture. Adams is nationally and internationally known maker with a B.F.A. from Concordia University and an M.A. in Cultural Studies, Curatorial Stream from the University of Winnipeg. KC has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, residencies and biennales. KC was awarded the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Making A Mark Award, Canada’s Senate 150 medal, the Ohpinamake Award, and the Quill & Quire’s 2019 Books of the Year.

Jaime Black-Morsette
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist and activist, with family scrip signed in the community of St Andrews, Manitoba. Jaime lives and works on her home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over a decade. Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary art practice includes immersive film and video, installation art, photography and performance art practices. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, place and resistance.
All applicants are welcome, but preference will be given to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples as the aim of this program is to support Indigenous knowledge and skills reclamation. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis, but a waitlist will be available should spaces open. Participants will be contacted to confirm their attendance.
If you have any questions please contact Amelia Fay, Curator of Anthropology and HBC Museum Collection, at AFay@ManitobaMuseum.ca.