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Alberta’s first artist-in-residence is an Indigenous woman who plans to travel the province and to create a large-scale painted map highlighting Indigenous culture, language and deep connection to the land.

Lauren Crazybull, 24, said her collage will focus on Indigenous stories and the natural world at a time of “ecological disaster.” Climate change affects everyone, she said. “As an artist, I’m not exempt from that.”

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Crazybull, who is Blackfoot and Dene, is a self-taught portrait artist. She plans to create a map nearly 2.5 metres tall that will take form on a canvas or mural. It will include Indigenous names for markers and histories across Alberta.

She doesn’t know yet where the artwork will be displayed.

“I feel like it’s a good time in my (career) for something like this,” she said. “I’ve been building momentum up for the past year or so, just trying to really expand my practise in a serious way.”