Coco Eskotew documents her process and techniques as an artist while she creates a painting encouraging people to accept and respect Indigenous women. We worked together on Coco’s digital story during a workshop at the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver, in a program supported by the grunt gallery and Vancouver Foundation.
Credits
Painter, videographer and director: Coco Eskotew
Editor: Sebnem Ozpeta
Mentors: Lorna Boschman and Sebnem Ozpeta
Music: Night Watch from Blue Dot Sessions
Special thanks to Dana Oikawa, Carnegie Centre, and Vancouver Foundation’s DTES Small Arts Grants
Created during grunt gallery’s 2022 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen Digital Storytelling workshops. grunt gallery was founded in 1984 in Vancouver, BC with the vision to become an internationally renowned artist-run centre and further the practice of contemporary art. Through the exploration of our diverse Canadian cultural identity, we are able to offer public programming in the form of exhibitions, performances, artist talks, publications, and other special projects in the community. Our mandate is to inspire public dialogue by creating an environment conducive to the emergence of innovative, collaborative, and provocative contemporary art.
We gratefully acknowledge that we live and work on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
