KC Adams
KC Adams (born March 28, 1971) is a Cree, Ojibway, and British artist and educator based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a multimedia artist who works in sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking and kinetic art. She is well known for creating artwork that draws inspiration from popular culture and science fiction to deal with contemporary social issues. Her work addresses racism, colonization, human impact on land and the challenges and perceptions of Indigenous people. Adams considers herself a social-practice artist through the way her practice uses audience-interaction to bring attention to socio-political issues. KC Adams is a full-time practicing artist specializing in many mediums such as digital photography, clay, sculpture, painting, video, installation, public art, performance, beading, birch bark biting, leather work and quill work. She has created many one-of-a-kind artworks that will never be duplicated. In her work, she reflects on the relationships between ancestral knowledge, memory, and the sacredness of water. Using a variety of media, including copper, clay and "birch bark technology", the work is a visual reminder of the knowledge bundles (traditional teachings) that are passed onto the next generation of life givers and water protectors. Artwork Besides working with more traditional forms of