On April 23rd, we shared an Introduction to Making Beaded Uppers / Vamps for kamik, moccasins or slippers workshop with Hovak Johnston. This workshop was for Indigenous peoples only.

Materials: Size 11/0 seed beads (Preferably, yellow, black, green, 2 other colours); 1 beading needle & 1 regular sewing needle; white beading thread; two pieces of 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 White stroud or similar material; blank paper for drawing / tracing; and scissors. 

This workshop took place online using Zoom. This workshop, like all De-ICE-olation workshops, was free.

The Inuit Futures project is proud to partner with the Inuit Art Foundation to share this event as a part of Inuit Futures’ De-ICE-olation online Inuit artist workshop series. We’re happy to use our platform to will be hosting a series of online gatherings to help us stay connected, alone together! 

Hovak Johnston is an Inuk woman raised in the Kitikmeot Region in the Arctic. She lived off the land of Umingmaktok until she was sent away for school at the age of 7 to Cambridge Bay. Now living in Truro, Nova Scotia, Hovak maintains a deep connection to her culture, traditional arts and skills. Hovak’s diverse artistic practices include sewing, soapstone carving, jewellery making, tanning hides, and traditional tattooing. In 2018 she published a book on Inuit tattooing practices, Reawakening Our Ancestor's Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing (2018).