‘Explaining to scientists why art is important’: Nunatsiavut artist-in-residency program connects Indigenous artists with important themes

By Anasophie Vallee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter “For me, the highlight is seeing individuals be able to do something new with their art and validate themselves as artists,” said Jessica Winters, an Inuit artist from Makkovik, N.L. Winters is the co-lead, alongside Melanie Zurba, for the arts collective with the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures (SNF) project. Science can be foreign The residency program offers Indigenous artists the opportunity to get funding to create work that highlights a particular theme, such as food security, ice safety, Inuit self-determination, informed management solutions, and climate change. In using these themes to inspire their work, artists can help communicate important research and information through their art, explained Winters. “Science can be so foreign, and research and stuff – it’s jargony and complex and methodical,” she…

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