Red River Métis Artisans

Lesley Parisian

Lesley is a proud Red River Métis artisan who creates moccasins, purses, beadwork, leatherwork, and mittens, with a dream of designing her own distinctive mukluks. Working with natural materials, she discovered her craft only three years ago, yet it felt instantly familiar. Her father was born and raised in Roostertown, where her family lived from…

Liam Taliesin

Liam Taliesin is Red River Métis and a proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. He grew up in Winnipeg’s celebrated North End. He is a founder of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights and chaired the organization its first six years. He was Associate Dramaturge at Playwrights Workshop Montreal, assistingin play selection and development, and…

LILLIAN STRAHL

Lillian Strahl is a Wife, a Mother, a Grandmother, and a Great Grandmother.  She is a proud Red River Métis Woman.  She is originally from a small community in Northern Saskatchewan, in Buffalo Narrows.  Her Grandmother Celina and her Auntie Mary, are her inspiration for her beading.  She is relatively new to beading, making her…

Lily Gautron

Lisa Brinkworth

My name is Lisa Karen Brinkworth, proud Red River Métis. Born and raised in Winnipeg, from my English father Ronald, French Métis mother Angelique (Lafreniere). I grew up going out to the family farm in Baldur Manitoba and St.Francis Xavier every weekend to be with family. From an early age, I loved art, drawing and…

Lisa Delorme Meiler

Métis artist, Lisa Delorme Meiler’s work is imaginative. She draws from her life experiences and is inspired by nature, moods and memories, which are transformed into atmospheric landscapes and abstract depictions. She is able to translate her work into a visual form of storytelling that is vivid and expressive. Using pigment, paint and light into…

Lisa Hettrick

I am a proud Métis woman, wife and mother. I started my beading Adventure in the fall of 2020. My grandmother always used to embroider and taught me from a young age. So beading came to me fairly naturally. I enjoy creating many things and I would describe some of my style as influenced from…