The Slice from PBS North.

So our first exhibit here is Carl Gawboy's work, and it's based off of his graphic novel, The Ojibwe Fur Trade.

The accompanying exhibition is Wendy Savages curatorial expertise, so Wendy is bringing together her own work and work from other artists within our region to tell this story about how we've used adornments.

I hope that people, take away that the history of this area was very involved in the fur trade, And then also the role of the Ojibwe people that played and specifically the role that the the Ojibwe women played in the fur trade.

The women's role was they managed their own accounts.

So when the fur trading masters came in, they didn't want to trade with the women, but they said, no, this is their wheelhouse.

That's what they do.

You have to you have to trade.

This is all handsewn and this is ribbon and I did this one in 1986.

Now there's a whole movement of the strap dress, the meaning of the strap dress.

One of the other main things that came in the fur trade with the glass beads or small or glass seed beads and the Ojibwe people just exploded with using those.

Wendy has curated so many pieces, of clothing regalia.

We have a piece in here by Joe Savage that we just won a very big award fellowship.

And so we're really excited to be a part of a movement where fiber artists are getting, broader recognition for their work as artwork and not just craft.

So what's really special about this exhibition is that we're telling our story through our Annishanabee lens.

The Slice from PBS North, presented by the Teberg Fund.