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The Province
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Province
Cheekbone Beauty partners with Indigenous artist Kent Monkman for celebratory makeup launch
The limited-edition collaboration was released in celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 The limited-edition Cheekbone Beauty x Kent Monkman makeup release, $99. Photo by Cheekbone Beauty Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. 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Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors The release:Cheekbone Beauty x Kent Monkman collaboration. The buzz: Indigenous makeup brand Cheekbone Beauty celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 with a special collaboration. The St. Catharines, Ont.,-based company teamed up with Cree artist Kent Monkman for a limited-edition makeup release. Called the Powwow Kit, the vegan and cruelty-free makeup package includes four products: Mattifying Moon Dust translucent powder; a Horizon Lip Pencil in the shade True Red; Healing Lip Oil in the limited-edition shade Resilience Red; and the fan-favourite Uprise Mascara. 'This collaboration merges art and beauty as tools for visibility, empowerment and education,' says Cheekbone Beauty founder and Anishinaabe entrepreneur Jennifer Harper. 'It invites our community to engage with Indigenous culture in a way that's intentional, meaningful and visually impactful. Together, we're amplifying Indigenous voices through beauty, reframing narratives, and reminding the world that Indigenous beauty is a beautiful reflection of identity and culture.' Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. A cool — and collectible — aspect of this limited-time release is the fact that the makeup packaging sleeve, which features Monkman's iconic artwork Giants Walked the Earth, can be unfolded and framed as a piece of art. Monkman, who was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2023, is an internationally renowned artist whose work has been displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and many others. 'Monkman's art challenges colonial narratives and reclaims Indigenous identity through bold, unapologetic storytelling,' says Harper. 'By featuring his iconic work on our packaging, we bring that same energy into the beauty world — where representation has long been limited or stereotyped.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Founded in 2016 by Harper, Cheekbone Beauty is celebrated for its incorporation of Indigenous concepts of life cycle and sustainability with cosmetics. 'The beauty space, much like many others, is about how to get a product and sell it into someone's hands and nobody's too concerned about what happens to that afterwards,' Harper said in a 2022 interview with Postmedia News. 'So we really work from a different angle and are thinking so thoughtfully about, 'OK, what is going to happen to this?' ' The Cheekbone Beauty x Kent Monkman collaboration is available while supplies last. The price: $99. The retailer: Read More Vancouver Canucks Vancouver Canucks World News Local News
National Post
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- National Post
Cheekbone Beauty partners with Indigenous artist Kent Monkman for celebratory makeup launch
Article content Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content The St. Catharines, Ont.,-based company teamed up with Cree artist Kent Monkman for a limited-edition makeup release. Article content Article content Called the Powwow Kit, the vegan and cruelty-free makeup package includes four products: Mattifying Moon Dust translucent powder; a Horizon Lip Pencil in the shade True Red; Healing Lip Oil in the limited-edition shade Resilience Red; and the fan-favourite Uprise Mascara. Article content 'This collaboration merges art and beauty as tools for visibility, empowerment and education,' says Cheekbone Beauty founder and Anishinaabe entrepreneur Jennifer Harper. 'It invites our community to engage with Indigenous culture in a way that's intentional, meaningful and visually impactful. Together, we're amplifying Indigenous voices through beauty, reframing narratives, and reminding the world that Indigenous beauty is a beautiful reflection of identity and culture.' Article content A cool — and collectible — aspect of this limited-time release is the fact that the makeup packaging sleeve, which features Monkman's iconic artwork Giants Walked the Earth, can be unfolded and framed as a piece of art. Article content Monkman, who was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2023, is an internationally renowned artist whose work has been displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and many others. Article content 'Monkman's art challenges colonial narratives and reclaims Indigenous identity through bold, unapologetic storytelling,' says Harper. 'By featuring his iconic work on our packaging, we bring that same energy into the beauty world — where representation has long been limited or stereotyped.' Article content Article content View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC (@cheekbonebeauty) Article content Article content Article content
Vancouver Sun
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Cheekbone Beauty partners with Indigenous artist Kent Monkman for celebratory makeup launch
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. The release: Cheekbone Beauty x Kent Monkman collaboration . The buzz: Indigenous makeup brand Cheekbone Beauty celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 with a special collaboration. The St. Catharines, Ont.,-based company teamed up with Cree artist Kent Monkman for a limited-edition makeup release. Discover the best of B.C.'s recipes, restaurants and wine. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of West Coast Table will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Called the Powwow Kit, the vegan and cruelty-free makeup package includes four products: Mattifying Moon Dust translucent powder; a Horizon Lip Pencil in the shade True Red; Healing Lip Oil in the limited-edition shade Resilience Red; and the fan-favourite Uprise Mascara. 'This collaboration merges art and beauty as tools for visibility, empowerment and education,' says Cheekbone Beauty founder and Anishinaabe entrepreneur Jennifer Harper. 'It invites our community to engage with Indigenous culture in a way that's intentional, meaningful and visually impactful. Together, we're amplifying Indigenous voices through beauty, reframing narratives, and reminding the world that Indigenous beauty is a beautiful reflection of identity and culture.' A cool — and collectible — aspect of this limited-time release is the fact that the makeup packaging sleeve, which features Monkman's iconic artwork Giants Walked the Earth, can be unfolded and framed as a piece of art. Monkman, who was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2023, is an internationally renowned artist whose work has been displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and many others. 'Monkman's art challenges colonial narratives and reclaims Indigenous identity through bold, unapologetic storytelling,' says Harper. 'By featuring his iconic work on our packaging, we bring that same energy into the beauty world — where representation has long been limited or stereotyped.' A post shared by Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC (@cheekbonebeauty) Founded in 2016 by Harper, Cheekbone Beauty is celebrated for its incorporation of Indigenous concepts of life cycle and sustainability with cosmetics. 'The beauty space, much like many others, is about how to get a product and sell it into someone's hands and nobody's too concerned about what happens to that afterwards,' Harper said in a 2022 interview with Postmedia News . 'So we really work from a different angle and are thinking so thoughtfully about, 'OK, what is going to happen to this?' ' The Cheekbone Beauty x Kent Monkman collaboration is available while supplies last. The price: $99. The retailer: .
CBC
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
ImagineNATIVE celebrates 25 years of Indigenous cinema in summer event
The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto celebrates its 25th year in 2025 with a move to summer. Naomi Johnson, the festival's executive director, said she's hoping the festival's new June dates will set them apart from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In previous years, imagineNATIVE was held in October about a month after TIFF. "We had to get away from that fall season," she said. "It's just very packed in the city, especially because we're the first festival to follow TIFF, so it was getting very unmanageable in trying to get our events noticed. She said this year they've been able to collaborate and cross-promote with other organizations and events across the city which she thinks is a result of the festival's new date. This year there are 20 feature films, 79 short films, 14 digital and interactive works and 17 audio works. "We have 55 Indigenous nations from all around the world. There's going to be 27 Indigenous languages represented from 16 different countries," Johnson said. Recently confirmed, Johnson said, is the festival's Art Crawl event on June 5 at the Royal Ontario Museum that will feature Cree artist Kent Monkman's alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. This year will also include a retrospective of the festival's 25 years. "A big part of the theme is looking back, acknowledging those that got us here and holding the space now for those that are going to take it one day," Johnson said. Johnson said her work has brought her to other parts of the world where Indigenous populations are not even recognized by the government. "It's kind of a brag, you know, that we have this festival in Canada and it's a tribute to Canada's support of the arts," she said. Festival launches careers Trevor Solway, a Blackfoot filmmaker from Siksika Nation, said the festival helped launch his career. It's where he met Jason Ryle, imagineNATIVE's longtime artistic director, who went on to produce a few of Solway's projects. "My very first film called Indian Giver was developed with their mentorship program and it really was like the start of everything for me in filmmaking," Solway told CBC Indigenous. He has three works in the festival this year: a feature-length documentary and two short films. Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man is a cinéma vérité-style documentary, filmed over four years, that explores masculinity within his community. "We've always been this kind of savage Indian or been like this noble Indian. Rarely are we seen as multidimensional people," he said. Settler is an 11-minute horror film about an 1800s family that moves to Blackfoot Country and is visited by the Blackfoot trickster Napi. Pendleton Man is another short horror film about three young Blackfoot cousins home alone who are haunted by the Pendleton Man. Of the festival's new date, Solway said it's important for festivals to change and evolve. "I'm looking forward to seeing what that looks like in the summer months and during National Indigenous Peoples Month," he said. Singer/songwriter Lacey Hill from Six Nations and two-time Juno award-winner Derek Miller will be performing at the imagineNATIVE awards presentation, where the August Schellenberg Award of Excellence will be presented to actor Graham Greene. Hill said she's been a long-time festival attendee and performer. "I've been watching imagineNATIVE form over the years and been a part of it too with music videos," she said. "It can stand on its own because it's got all this support." The in-person festival runs June 3-8 with most screenings at the TIFF Lightbox theatre in Toronto. ImagineNATIVE's online festival runs June 9-15.
Winnipeg Free Press
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Victorious milestone
Miss Chief Eagle Testickle likes to show up without invitation. In Kent Monkman's vision, the two-spirit trickster intrudes semi-nude on the Fathers of Confederation as they plot the British colonies' future. She replaces Washington, clad in drag, during the Delaware crossing. These are the sorts of provocations, captured in massive paintings with the exquisite technique of the Old Masters, that's made Monkman one of Canada's most celebrated (and infamous) artists. KENT MONKMAN Kent Monkman's Miss Chief's Wet Dream, 2018 KENT MONKMAN And as of a couple of weeks ago, Miss Chief has taken up space in another distinguished setting — this time, with a friendly invitation. History Is Painted by the Victors (to Aug. 17) at the Denver Art Museum marks the first major American exhibit for the artist from Fisher River Cree Nation who grew up in Winnipeg. The show is represented in a sumptuous hardcover book, an exhibition catalogue by the same name, that can be purchased online. 'The exhibit's quite a milestone in my career,' says Monkman. 'They're behind (in the U.S.) in terms of some conversations around Indigenous people, but they're moving forward and Indigenous contemporary art is really starting to get some traction.' Monkman now splits his time between Toronto and New York. At 59, he's still youthful, debonair even, and seems to be entering the golden era of an already illustrious career. RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS FILES Acclaimed Fisher River Cree Nation artist Kent Monkman's work takes aim at the art world as much as the social world. RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS FILES From 2019 to '21, two monumental works of his greeted visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, thanks to a commission for their Great Hall — some of the most coveted real estate of any art gallery in the world. Since then, demand — and auction records — for Monkman's work have soared and glowing references have piled up in the New York Times, Guardian and international art press. But the artist, who's still exhibited regularly in Winnipeg (notable recent examples include the WAG-Qaumajuq's blockbuster Kent Monkman show, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, in 2019-20), has not left his hometown simply in his rearview window. The spectre of the Prairies looms large in his work. 'It's important to give locality to his work as Kent references Winnipeg and Manitoba a lot,' says Adrienne Huard, a Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe curator and scholar (who uses they/them pronouns). They contributed a chapter to the Denver exhibit catalogue about the Canadian Prairies' influence on Monkman. 'And I think there are quite a few important conversations that are happening here, including around MMIWG2S (missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit) and two-spiritedness, whereas other places aren't quite there yet.' KENT MONKMAN Le Petit déjeuner sur l'herbe, 2014. Monkman's art frequently references Winnipeg and Manitoba. KENT MONKMAN History Is Painted by the Victors is something of a retrospective of a career still in bloom. It covers 20 odd years of artmaking after Monkman turned away from abstraction in the early 2000s towards his signature history and landscape painting style. 'Normally I'm kind of involved as a curator, but this was a very different project,' says Monkman. '(Curator John Lukavic) assembled works in an order that he felt represented different themes in my work, with the idea of introducing my work, in many ways, to the American audience.' This includes, among other things, selections from his Urban Res series from roughly 10 years ago, depicting Winnipeg's North End. Tattooed Renaissance angels, buffalo, bears, police and escaped prisoners collide in scenes unfolding along Sutherland Avenue and Main Street while Miss Chief, Monkman's alter ego, bears witness. KENT MONKMAN The Deposition. KENT MONKMAN The Deposition. In one work, Le Petit déjeuner sur l'herbe, modernist, Picasso-like feminine figures lie scattered along the street in front of Winnipeg's New West Hotel. 'There's a brutality to Picasso's style (depicting women),' says Huard. 'And this scenery reflects the violence that Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit peoples face. They've been discarded, hypersexualized.' Monkman's work takes aim at the art world as much as the social world, and these critiques intersect where modernism is concerned. He's connected modernism — with its ideas of progress and innovation — in the visual arts with the colonial project of modernizing Turtle Island by violent force. This has helped inspire him to rediscover more traditional European styles, like history painting, pooh-poohed by Picasso and the modernists. 'It's such a sophisticated visual language that was essentially discarded by the modernists,' says Monkman. 'I want to use it to convey Indigenous experiences, both contemporary and historical. We have this whole universe and our cosmologies weren't conveyed or understood… I want to find a language enabling me to reach the widest audience possible.' KENT MONKMAN Seeing Red, 2014. KENT MONKMAN Seeing Red, 2014. The irony that history painting has its own Eurocentric trappings isn't lost on Monkman or his scholars. But as Huard reflects, this sort of tension speaks to the experience of Winnipeg Indigenous artists and communities in general. 'I think we're allowed to critique colonial structures,' Huard says, 'and also participate within those structures.' After its spring run at the Denver Art Museum, History is Painted by the Victors travels to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and will be open to the public from Sept. 27 to March 8, 2026. Conrad SweatmanReporter Conrad Sweatman is an arts reporter and feature writer. Before joining the Free Press full-time in 2024, he worked in the U.K. and Canadian cultural sectors, freelanced for outlets including The Walrus, VICE and Prairie Fire. Read more about Conrad. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
