Carla Rae Taylor, a Deline visual artist and illustrator who spent a long time living in Yellowknife, visited Ecole William McDonald School on Wednesday to create a work on the wall outside of the school.
She came to gather ideas from the young students.
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Taylor decided to look for help from the students, who she describes as having the purest mind and purest imagination, with less focus on self criticism and more focus on the pure art itself.
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This project is also a part of her journey to learn and share the knowledge, culture and wisdom of Northern communities.
She has spent time in other communities before her visit, and was surprised by the stories and legends the Elders told her.
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The project also related to an idea from Christal Doherty, an author who hails from Deline and whoSA国际影视传媒檚 now a teacher in Yellowknife. The things that both of them thought were really important in Dene culture were included within the project.
Andrea Harding, regional Indigenous languages and education coordinator with Yellowknife Education District No. 1, said she was impressed with what she had seen.
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As of right now, the mural project does not have a name. Harding hopes the creative process will help the students eventually land on one in the near future.
