About Amanda Fox

Medicine

Artist’s Statement

This piece symbolizes the importance of Indigenous Medicine. I have encapsulated the four sacred medicines important to our culture – Tobacco, Sage, Cedar, and Sweetgrass – on top of rawhide. I used a metal feather to symbolize how we will always be here. Our unique group came up with these statements to share in hopes that it will reach everyone. We are all treaty.

“There is healing when honouring Indigenous traditional ceremony and power in community.

Sharing our knowledge and working together can create a healthy, unified future in medicine.”

Statement of Hope

Together, our shared hope for the future of the Land and Medicine is to value the power of community and ceremony for healing by sharing and working together to create a unified future in medicine.

Biography

Amanda Starlight has been professionally making jewelry and art for six years and started art making ten years ago. In 2007 she was accepted into Alberta Collage of Art + Design, Calgary, where she completed 3rd year studies majoring in the jewellry and metals program. She plans to continue her fourth year when her youngest child is older. Starlight’s main goal is to keep learning different techniques and expanding her skill set so that one day she can teach and encourage the community in the arts. Starlight is currently a freelance jeweler/artist working from home on the Tsuu T’ina Nation with her partner and husband, Keegan Starlight, who is also an artist specializing in portrait paintings. Together, they will be selling their art at the Calgary Stampede Arts and Western Showcase 2017, located in the BMO center.