Art Workshop with Crystal Semaganis: Explore Your Creativity With Acrylics!

Crystal Semaganis will be guest instructor for this painting workshop at the Huron County Museum,  to focus on Crystal’s unique approach to her art and visual storytelling, as well as techniques including imagery and colour.

This art workshop is open to artists of different experience levels and abilities. Recommended for adults and young adults. Art supplies ( including acrylic paints, 9” x 12” canvases) provided. Pre-registration required. You can register at the front desk during regular hours or contact the museum at 519-524-2686, email museum @ huroncounty.ca to save your spot.  Buy online via Eventbrite!   Fees for participants are  $15+ HST  (or $10 + HST for museum members).

Artwork and beadwork by Crystal will also be available for purchase at the museum throughout the day. Crystal will also be speaking at the museum that evening. 

Register online: https://CrystalSemaganisHuron.eventbrite.ca

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Crystal Semaganis is a Plains Cree/Chippewa Cree from the Little Pine First Nation, Treaty No. 6 in Saskatchewan. A third generation descendant of Poundmaker, Crystal is an activist, writer and artist whose areas of interest include the Sixties Scoop, Intergenerational Trauma, Residential School Survivor Families, the Creative Arts, Pow Wow and Regalia Making and Community Building, as well as combatting Indigenous identity fraud. Crystal makes her home today in Northern Ontario. In 2018, her family released a podcast with CBC called Finding Cleo that was the story of their 46 year search for her oldest sister, Cleo Semaganis Nicotine—and during that podcast, Crystal was using her adopted name of Christine Cameron. Crystal was recently longlisted for the 2023 CBC non-fiction prize for kisâkihitin.