Workshop: Regalia Making

For Indigenous students who want to learn how to make regalia or work on a class project involving bead work, pattern making, feather work and more. Matt Provost will be hosting sessions throughout the semester. Contact Sydney to confirm your attendance. Food will be provided.

Matthew Provost, is a Siksikaitsitapii (Blackfoot) designer, printmaker, beader, and visual artist from the Piikani Nation within the Blackfoot Confederacy. Matthew continues to utilize research as a component of design to recreate contemporary elements of Niitoyis (Lodge’s). His practice is broad while also focusing on regalia making through sewing, beadwork, and leatherwork. Matthew is an up-and-coming designer focusing on cut and sewn designs. From pattern making to garment construction, he creates his designs to challenge the boundaries of Indigenous concepts of fashion. 

Matthew has created designs for Crack Gallery, Beadwork for Better Gift Shop™ located in Toronto, Canada and Balansa Sound Shop in Busan, South Korea. He is a current artist working on the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh).