Sponsored by Gallery 1C03, the Weweni Indigenous Speakers Series, and the University of Winnipeg Collegiate.
November 26th, 2019 in Leatherdale Commons.
Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comics artist, illustrator and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Emily Carr University. This Fall, Cole has been touring Canada to celebrate the release of the Dakwäkãda Warriors Southern Tutchone language revival comic book published by Conundrum Press. Cole was in Winnipeg to lead a week-long graphic novel workshop for youth at Art City. In this Artist's Talk, Cole details the origins of the book, explains the comic's relationship to Indigenous language revival initiatives, and discusses some of the personal, community, and cultural contexts for his work.