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Jackie Olson is a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation artist from Dawson City, who creates paintings, sculptures and installations with natural materials. She explores her connection to the land, her ancestors and the salmon through her process-based art practice.
Jackie Olson, First Nations Culture Instructor. jacqueline.olson@yukonu.ca. Jackie Olson, with a rich heritage of Gwich'in and Danish roots, hails from Dawson City, YT, where she spent the majority of her life.
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Jeremy Linville leads multiple lives: throughout the year, he is a rapper, runs the Youth of Today Societymusic studio in downtown Whitehorse, and is a single dad to his son. Jeremy is from Tahltan First Nation. If there's one thing he wants to pass along to the next generation, especially Indigenous youth who want to follow in his footsteps, it's ...
For all of her 26 years, beadwork artist Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé has been grounded in her community of Beaver Creek. It's a point of pride for her to call it her hometown. "It's so much different when you actually go back home and you know where your family was born, where they hunted," she said. "That connection of just understanding that, 'I am...
Each time Kevin Barr and Boyd Benjamin perform at the Moosehide Gathering Cultural Festival near Dawson City, they strive to uphold a sacred vision of Indigenous elders: creating safe spaces for participants to reconnect with their inner selves, and with each other. Kevin is of Anishnaabe ancestry and was adopted into Carcross-Tagish First Nation. ...
A visual artist from Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation near Dawson City, Jackie Olson is ready to move First Nations art onward to a better place. "We don't need to go back to who we were, because we'll never get there; we've lost that," she said. "So, how do we get to a new place, as Indigenous people, and the feeling that it's ours?" Jackie says tha...
Aug 9, 2024 · Jackie Olson was born and raised in Dawson City and is a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen. Olson received a BFA from the Alberta College of Art in 1992, and has been creating and learning new art forms since. Olson’s work has been featured in exhibitions across Canada including the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, AB), Harcourt House (Edmonton, AB),
Jan 5, 2024 · Jackie Olson is a board member for the Klondike Development Organization (KDO). One of the main focuses of the organization is to alleviate the rental housing shortage in Dawson...
Jun 24, 2024 · Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in artist Jackie Olson was instrumental in developing Dawson City’s arts scene as an administrator. Now, through her own work, Olson explores the connection her family has had with the land for generations. Through Klondike Experience, book an afternoon hands-on workshop.
