Kamisha Alexson – Designing the 12 Tipi Teachings (Visual Arts Grades 1-8)
- Broadcast length: 45 minutes, with a pre and post workshop activity
included in the teacher guide - Date and time: Apr 15-16, 2025
- 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM each day
- Register below for the Live session
Program Description
The 12 tipi teachings provide a pathway for character growth. Join Kamisha as she walks us through them in an approachable way using a variety of mediums to design a tipi canvas that can be turned into a miniature tipi, constructed with each of the tipi teachings in mind.
Sessions
- English Program – Grade 1/2: Wed. Apr. 15th 9:30 AM
- English Program – Grade 3/4: Wed. Apr. 15th 1:00 PM
- English Program – Grade 5/6: Thur. Apr. 16th 9:30 AM
- English Program – Grade 7/8: Thur. Apr.16th 1:00 PM
Artist Biography
Kamisha Alexson is a two-spirit Nēhiyaw Iskwēw from Kahkewistahaw First Nation. Kamisha lives and practices her visual art, spoken word and hand-drumming in Treaty Six territory. After becoming a founding member of Ogichidaa Kwe, a Toronto-based hand-drum group established in 2018, she has since created multiple youth programs. Kamisha’s story comes from the experience of being raised as an Urban Indigenous youth without a strong sense of culture or community, and how she reclaimed that connection to the land, Nehiyawak culture and traditions in adulthood. Her multi-disciplinary work ranges from mixed media installations to visual art and spoken word, deeply rooted in two-spirit identity. As a Cree woman, Kamisha wants to share with the youth how she decolonizes through the art of healing intergenerational traumas. Her creative practices often include gifted knowledge for foraged materials, taking from the land only what is needed and nothing more.