Dawn Marie Marchand

Dawn Marie Marchand is a member of Cold Lake First Nation in Treaty Six territory. cîpêhcakwawêw-iskwêw (Blue Horse Spirit Woman) is a Cree and Métis artist, educator, advocate, author, writer, speaker, and mother. 

NAC: First Métis Man of Odesa

THEATRE: Designer-in-Residence for Punctuate! Theatre

OTHER: She received an Aboriginal Role Model Award for Art in 2017, during her term as the Inaugural Indigenous Artist In Residence for the City of Edmonton.  Facilitation of the Indigenous Artist Market Collective engagement and launch in 2018. An installation called The Longest Journey as part of the Nuit Blanche Festival in 2018. Since then she has created public art in the Stanley Milner Public Library and had artwork projected at Expo 2020 Dubai. Her Treaty 6 oral history recognition artwork 10 Sticks was projected with the Juno 2023 Land Acknowledgement in Edmonton.

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