Finding Your Stitch Beading Workshop

Sunday, March 29, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre

Pre-registration required by March 25 at 11:59 pm. Priority to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit makers.

Join Gallery 1C03 on Sunday, March 29, 2026 for Finding Your Stitch Beading Workshop with Cathy Mattes at the Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre. Mattes will provide instruction on four different flat stitch techniques, while sharing teachings about ways of learning and teaching others how to bead, gifted to her by her very first beading teacher, her aunty Jean Baron Ward. This free workshop is open to Indigenous makers of all levels of experience, but it will also be a great opportunity for those who currently lead beading workshops to enhance their teaching techniques.

Supplies will be provided for this workshop, and light refreshments will be served. Spots are limited, and pre-registration is required.

This event is presented in conjunction with Gallery 1C03's exhibition Beading Métis Resurgence.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Cathy Mattes (MMF citizen, Westman local, Southwest Region) is a curator, writer, and art history professor based out of Sprucewoods, Manitoba. Her curation, research and writing centers on dialogic and Indigenous knowledge-centered curatorial practice as strategies for care. She has a PhD in Indigenous Studies from the University of Manitoba, and she currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg in the History of Art and Curatorial Studies programs. Mattes has been beading since she was 20 years old and has taught beading and moccasin-making in workshops, university courses, and around her kitchen table with family and friends.

GETTING HERE AND ACCESSIBILITY
The Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre is adjacent to the University of Winnipeg’s main campus. It is located on the main floor of the Helen Betty Osborne Building at 511 Ellice Avenue, marked with an “E” on campus maps. Free street parking is available on Ellice and adjacent streets. Building entrance is street level and accessible. A volunteer will be stationed at the entrance to welcome and assist participants to enter the building and Centre. with auto door opener. Accessible washrooms are located on the main floor.