Judy Googoo considers Mi’kmaq quillwork a beautiful but dying art form. “I think it’s important just to keep our traditional crafts alive,” the 58-year-old from Waycobah First Nation, N.S., said.

Head bent toward her work, Carolyn Simon uses tweezers to carefully pull a porcupine quill through a tiny hole in a piece of birch bark. She folds the quill with her fingers and then guides it through ...

Christine Toulouse remembers holding a warm cup of tea as her mother and grandmother first taught her how to pluck a porcupine. The trio sat on the front porch of her mother's home in Sagamok ...

ESKASONI — At the Eskasoni Wellness Centre, Audrey Johnson recently led a workshop to share and preserve the Mi’kmaq tradition of quillwork. Quillwork is a time-honoured practice that involves using ...

During the Dene Quill Art project, two Athabascan artists and an ethnographic conservator shared quillwork techniques and develop new ones by studying historic museum objects. They shared their ...

A faint smell of smoke-tanned moose hide wafted through a workroom at the Anchorage Museum as pots of dyes simmered on heaters. Small piles of porcupine quills, small handmade looms, pieces of moose ...

Melissa Peter-Paul drives from her home in the Abegweit First Nation in Prince Edward Island to gather the materials she needs for her art. But it's not paint or clay she comes to collect. It's ...

Since he was around 10 years old, artist Joe Big Mountain—who is Mohawk, Cree, and Comanche—has been drawn to working with porcupine quills. Today, he makes one-of-a-kind statement quillwork earrings ...

Porcupine quills have been used extensively to decorate clothing, birch bark furniture, and personal accessories. In many of these objects, the quills have been beautifully coloured with dyes. Quills, ...

The Orillia Museum of Art & History (OMAH) recently hosted its annual Sir Sam’s Society membership event celebrating the museum’s commitment to collecting and showcasing significant works of art. The ...

Kay Sark is out on her back deck on Lennox Island First Nation in Prince Edward Island, sporting one yellow rubber glove. But the Mi'kmaw woman isn't wearing the glove to clean, she's wearing it to ...

ESKASONI — At the Eskasoni Wellness Centre, Audrey Johnson recently led a workshop to share and preserve the Mi’kmaq tradition of quillwork. Quillwork is a time-honoured practice that involves using ...