Chief Lady Bird, Artist – Flare

Chief Lady Bird is a Toronto-based Anishinaabe artist who uses illustration, mixed media painting and street art to bring empowerment to the forefront of discussions about the nuances of being an Indigenous womxn. (She’s also the beautiful talent behind this year’s #HowIMadeIt artwork.) Here, she tells FLARE how she made it

Where did you go to school and what did you study?

I went to school at Toronto’s OCAD University and studied drawing and painting with a minor in Indigenous visual culture.
What was your first paying gig out of school? (In your field, or not.)

Creating a sketch for a monument at Vimy Ridge, commissioned by the Vimy Ridge Foundation. I said yes because I needed the money but the project wasn’t aligned with where I wanted my practice to go. To this day I don’t know if the sketches were used or what stage of the monument they’re at.

Read More: https://www.flare.com/how-i-made-it/chief-lady-bird/