By Anasophie Vallee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u201cFor me, the highlight is seeing individuals be able to do something new with their art and validate themselves as artists,\u201d 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. \u201cScience can be so foreign, and research and stuff \u2013 it\u2019s jargony and complex and methodical,\u201d she… <\/p>\n
By Anasophie Vallee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u201cFor me, the highlight is seeing individuals be able to do something new with their art and validate themselves as artists,\u201d 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. \u201cScience can be so foreign, and research and stuff \u2013 it\u2019s jargony and complex and methodical,\u201d she... <\/p>\n