Anne Riley and Cease Wyss

In residence: 2022

In their retreat time at the cottage, Cease and Anne worked on a publication together. They were joined by Muskwa, their furry kin.

Anne Riley is an Indigiqueer multidisciplinary artist living as a Slavey Dene/German guest from Fort Nelson First Nation on the unceded Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlí̓lwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-waututh) Nations. Her work explores different ways of being and becoming, touch, and Indigeneity. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 and in 2016 she graduated from the Native Education College with a Certificate in Family and Community Counseling. She has exhibited both in the United States and Canada. She is currently working with T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss on a collaborative public art project that was commissioned by the City of Vancouver called A Constellation of Remediation, which consists of Indigenous Remediation Gardens planted throughout the city decolonizing and healing the dirt back to soil.

T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss is an Indigenous Matriarch of the Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo and Hawaiian people. Through her work as an ethnobotanist, artist, activist and community-based educator, they strive to share Indigenous customs, teachings, and futures and to connect Indigenous peoples. Wyss’s thirty-year career encompasses a vast array of practices, from weaving, making remedies, medicine walks to the realm of Indigenous Digital Futurisms. Ceases’ interactive, community-based work is insightful and informative of their contemporary conditions. More information: www.tuyttanatceasewyss.ca