Indigenous Artistry and the Quiet Occupation of Campus Space
Within the brutalist symmetry of the University of Winnipeg, Indigenous artists and makers subtly reclaim space. Their wares are not commodities—they are continuities. Each fur-trimmed stitch, each piece of beadwork stretches backward and forward at once, tying past presence to future persistence.
It’s not just about what’s sold. It’s about what’s held—language, lineage, labour. University walls once built to standardize knowledge now play reluctant host to forms of knowing they were not built to contain. This is art as statement. As survival. As soft resistance.
