FLEET: Granville Island & FLEET: Edmonds

March 31 - April 28, 2025 & May 5 - June 2, 2025

Artist Talk with Caitlin Aleck and Ariane Xay Kuyaas', Wednesday April 16th at 2 PM at the Museum of Vancouver

Artist Talk Saturday, April 26th at 1 PM at FLEET: Granville Island (1425 Anderson St)

Artist Talk Sunday, May 18th at 1 PM at FLEET: Edmonds (Intersection of Humphries Ave & Rosewood St, Burnaby)

We are excited to welcome Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw to FLEET! Aleck will be taking part in residencies at both FLEET: Granville Island and FLEET: Edmonds as part of the Emerging Indigenous Artist Residency Series. During her visit to FLEET, Aleck will be working on a weaving project with the community’s help and loving support.

Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw, is a səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) artist specializing in weaving and digital arts. Wool weaving awoke in Caitlin in 2018, and she now creates art for ceremony, teaching, and reconciliation. With cedar weaving lineage passed down through her patriarch side from Xwchíyò:m, and wool weaving passed down through her matriarch side, she has a strong connection to the artform on both sides of her family. Her thoughtful and passion-driven work is heartfully tuned, with a strong focus around culture, history, and ancestral connection to the land. After weaving for 7 years, she has an understanding that weaving can be translated from story into design elements. Transforming these elements on a public art scale is her way of sharing her ancestral knowledge for generations to come.

This residency is part of the Emerging Indigenous Artists Residency series, which supports emerging Indigenous artists to create work at the FLEET in public spaces. The Emerging Indigenous Artists Residency series is generously supported by the British Columbia Arts Council, CMHC-Granville Island, City of Burnaby Public Art Program, Metro Vancouver Regional Cultural Projects Grants program, Deux Mille Foundation, and Hamber Foundation.

Image (above): Matriarchs in the Making, Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw, 2023.

Images (below, left to right):

Lupine Walk at Seymour Village, Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw, 2024.

Water Connections, Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw, 2021. Photo taken at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, as part of Coast Salish Artist Dan Friday's Future Artifacts exhibition.

Photo of Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw.

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