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This is a brief overview of life in Attawapiskat. A colleague of mine and I spent a week in Attawapiskat reporting and shooting for the Toronto Star. If one stays longer than a quick in-and-out, the community begins to reveal itself and you begin to feel at home in this complex town.

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Adrienne Arsenault returns to the Attawapiskat Fist Nation to check on the progress being made towards alleviating the housing crisis, and what's standing in the way.

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Questions:

1. Do you think that Jared Ficklin’s work is artistic?

2. How does his work relate to your current project?

3. What can be said about the amount of research that he has done?  How does this compare with how you prepare for an artwork before working on the final piece?

4. What is the relationship between sound/music and art?

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Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)

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Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark -- and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity.

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Write a short (½ page) review of Heather Dickson’s work.  Select one or two images from her site (or from her Instagram page) as examples to share in your review.  You may use some of your answers from today’s questions to help you create your review.  *You should include information from the radio broadcast in your response as well.

Explain who Heather Dickson is, and what she creates.

Try to describe her work in as much detail as possible.

Explain why Heather’s work is significant:  not only for herself, but for those who purchase her product as well.

Provide any additional information you feel is relevant for someone who isn’t familiar with her work.

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Dickson Designs, a harmony between Traditional&Modern Northern First Nation Fashion.

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a) Watch the slideshow at the top of the webpage
b) ***LISTEN*** to the radio interview (less than 5 min)
Questions:

1. What materials does Heather Dickson use in her work?

2. How much does she sell her work for?

3. What was her work inspired by?  How did she modify traditional clothing to create something innovative?

4. What happened when she realized that she couldn’t keep up to the demand for her product?

5. Would you say that her products could be considered as artworks?  Why or why not?

6. How can a product such as this create pride? (for both the creator and those who wear the product)

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Whitehorse designer Heather Dickson is putting a new twist on both traditional and modern art. Her canvas? Brightly coloured kerchiefs that inspired her Granny Hanky Headbands.

Whitehorse designer Heather Dickson is putting a new twist on both traditional and modern art. Her canvas? Brightly coloured kerchiefs that inspired her Granny Hanky Headbands.

"As much as I love our grandmothers, I couldn't rock it the way they do, so I cut it up one day and I made myself a headband," she said.

Less than a year later, Dickson's headbands are being sold all over North America.

As soon as she posts new stock to her online store, it sells out almost instantly.

Dickson said she quickly realized she couldn't keep up with the high demand.

"I started inviting women to bead for me and it's been absolutely amazing. I find a lot of my customers feel like they've gone back to their roots and they show their First Nations pride."

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Whitehorse designer beads traditional coloured kerchiefs with a modern twist | CBC Radio

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Whitehorse designer Heather Dickson is putting a new twist on both traditional and modern art. Her canvas? Brightly coloured kerchiefs that inspired her Granny Hanky Headbands. Whitehorse designer Heather Dickson is putting a new twist on both traditional and modern art. Her canvas? Brightly coloured kerchiefs that inspired her Granny Hanky Headbands.

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Whitehorse designer Heather Dickson is putting a new twist on a traditional staple, using colourful scarves - the kind often worn by elders - to create beaded headbands.

"I was always drawn to them," the 25-year-old says of the bold kerchiefs.

"You know, as much as I love our grandmothers, I couldn't rock it the way they do, so I cut it up one day and I made myself a headband.

"I wore it around and I got made fun of a little bit. Some people were like, 'Oh, you're wearing a granny hanky. It's for grandmas,' and I said, 'Yeah, I like it. It's kind of colourful.'"

A friend asked to buy one and Dickson added some beadwork.

That was the beginning of Dickson Designs and now, less than a year later, her headbands have been sold all over North America. She calls them Granny Hanky Headbands and as soon as she posts new stock to her online store, it sells out almost instantly.

"Very quickly I learned that I could not keep up with the demand myself," she says. "I started inviting women to bead for me and it's been absolutely amazing."

"It's exciting," says Kaylyn Baker, one of several the beaders working with Dickson. "I get to see other people wearing my bead work, it's just really awesome."

Dickson says the many hours of sitting, measuring and sewing is worth it - especially when she hears directly from customers on social media.

"I find a lot of my customers feel like they've gone back to their roots and they show their First Nations pride."

Steve Smith, Dickson's uncle and chief of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, has been a sounding board for her business.

"It's been very rapid," he said. "The rest of the family has marvelled at how quickly it took off."

He sees her work as both traditional and modern art.

"We were a people that evolved; we had to evolve. Our land is pretty unforgiving up here, so we had to be able to adapt and it's really neat to see our young people adapting and the granny hanky is almost the perfect example of an adaptation.

"It's still a traditional method. It's born from tradition but it's modern. It's uniquely Yukon and I think it just brings our past into the future."

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Yukon designer turns elders' kerchiefs into youthful headbands | CBC News

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Whitehorse designer Heather Dickson is putting a new twist on a traditional staple, using colourful scarves - the kind often worn by elders - to create beaded headbands. "I was always drawn to them," the 25-year-old says of the bold kerchiefs.