FLEET: Granville Island

Chain & Forge Plaza, 1425 Anderson St, Vancouver

March 31 - April 28, 2025

Public Artist Talk Saturday, April 26th at 1 PM

We are excited to welcome Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw to FLEET: Granville Island for an artist residency as part of the Emerging Indigenous Artist Residency Series! During her residency at FLEET, Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw will be working on a weaving project with the community’s help and loving support. Join us on April 26th at 1 PM for an artist talk with Caitlin in the FLEET.

Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw, is a səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) artist specializing in weaving and digital arts.  Caitlin has been weaving and creating designs since late 2018 and creates art for ceremony, teaching, and reconciliation. With cedar weaving lineage passed down through her patriarch side from Xwchíyò:m, and matriarch side of wool weaving, she has a strong connection to weaving on both sides of her family. Her thoughtful and passion driven work is finely crafted, heartfully tuned, and always creating 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 into design elements. Transforming them on a public art scale is her 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, 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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