SWAIA ARTIST Profile

Wanesia Spry

Name
Wanesia Spry
Tribe
Minnesota Lake Superior Chippewa
Main Classification
Jewelry
Classification #2
Diverse Arts
Classification #3

SWAIA Booth History

SFIM25
WIM24
SFIM24
PLZ 40

SWAIA Highlight History

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2024 Award History

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Portfolio Example & Artist Statement
Wanesia Spry

My work involves sculptural birchbark contemporary baskets with metals and storytelling in a sculptural annishinabae form. Also using birchbark biting in my work which is birchbark that is hand gathered in Minnesota on my Reservation, after harvesting birchbark I peel birchbark into fine thin layers of birchbark that feel like tissue paper. I then bite on the folded edges with my eye teeth to create design, patterns and storytelling through the art of birchbark biting a traditional art work I have reawakened at Santa Fe NDN market and continue to.

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