Heart & Hand: The Winners Are...!

Thanks to all of our talented artisans and storytellers, wonderful volunteers and of course... all our enthusiastic visitors who made Heart & Hand 2013 a great success!

Our Best of Show winner as chosen by our panel of judges was wood worker and former Folk Artist-in-Residence Peter Findlay.

Our People's Choice winner was Naomi Smith, First Nations artist and educator. This was Naomi's first time being part of the Heart and Hand festival.

Prizes were generously donated to the winners by Roya LePage Scharf Realty Limited.

We will see you in 2014!

Heart & Hand: First Nations Artist and Educator Naomi Smith

Bead and quill work pieces

Meet Naomi Smith, First Nations artist and educator. In this video Naomi tells us about her art and what it is that inspires her to create her beautiful bead and quill work pieces. Naomi is passionate about sharing the history and traditions of the First Nations people of the Woodland and Northeastern area. 

Exploring the story of beadwork is one way that Naomi shares her traditions and culture. She creates contemporary pieces based on traditional examples. For over 15 years Naomi has designed and created traditional Native beadwork, leather craft, moose hair embroidery, quill work, sweetgrass or birch bark basket making and adornment, always valuing these sacred materials throughout her creative process.

Come out to the Heart & Hand Festival this Saturday, September 21 to learn more! 

Contemporary and traditional examples of  beadwork pieces

Some of these traditional beadwork pieces are over 200 years old