Metis Dot Paintings

Today we learned about the work of a Metis artist named Christi Belcourt. She uses 1000's of paint dots (that resemble traditional Metis beading) to create beautiful works of art inspired by nature. Here are a couple of her pieces:

The students then created some of their own spectacular dot painting. Many of them will continue working on their creations tomorrow afternoon - it gave us an appreciation of how time consuming this art form is. We saw an interview with Christi Belcourt in which she showed one of her pieces that was made up of more than 200,000 dots!