The Works Art & Design Festival celebrating its 40 years in Edmonton
The theme — Ground Works — is intentionally environmentally focused, its art full of impressions of flora and fauna.
I ran into two-spirit Beave Cree-Métis artist Clinton Minault wearing a 'found' Louis Riel shirt out at North Country Fair earlier this week, where he's making a fox sculpture.
For The Works on Churchill Square, he'll be live-building Belly of the Beast — a new bison sculpture to accompany his 2024 piece Beastly Two Eyed Festival Seer.
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