Arts Days 2025 – This Must Be the Place: Land-based Art Fieldtrip

Join us for This Must Be the Place – Land-Based Art, a professional development session exploring the deep connection between art and place through the lens of Blackfoot land-based artistic practices in southern Alberta.

Held at a stunning fall location in Pavan Park, this gathering highlights how artistic expression is rooted in landscape, tradition, and cultural memory. The session is facilitated by Blood Tribe artist, musician, and storyteller Jared Tailfeathers, who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in land-based teachings and Indigenous art. Participants will gain firsthand insight into how Blackfoot culture integrates the land into its creative traditions through visual storytelling, petroglyphs, beadwork, parfleche design, and contemporary practices. This is an opportunity to engage in reflective, interactive learning with one of the region’s most respected cultural voices.

Register HERE

About the Facilitator: Jared (Uncle Jerry) Tailfeathers is a multidisciplinary Blackfoot artist whose work spans visual art, music, storytelling, and graphic novels. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design, Jared is a founding member of The Tens Only Collective and IRIM – Indigenous Resilience in Music. His work focuses on storytelling as a core practice, blending traditional forms with contemporary expression.

Arts Days Lethbridge 2025 events take place between September 2 – 28 during Alberta’s Month of the Artist! Arts Days Lethbridge is an annual celebration of the arts held in conjunction with provincial and national Culture Days. The Allied Arts Council works with AAC members and member organizations to support and celebrate a variety of events throughout the City of Lethbridge.

Participating Sponsors: Servus Credit Union, City of Lethbridge, Alberta Culture Days | Government of Alberta, Culture Days | Government of Canada.

To see all events, please visit artsdayslethbridge.ca