Chippewow Blossoms | BBB x Mea B'Fly Collab

I have a really cool job. I get to work with Native American fashion designers and artists on a daily basis. I'm hardly an artist, but their creativity inspires me more than they'll ever know.

A couple weeks ago, I was on the phone with one of the artists represented on the Beyond Buckskin Boutique site. Her name is MaRia and she heads up the super fresh Native-centered small jewelry business known as Mea B'Fly. She had an idea to do a collaboration with Beyond Buckskin for an exclusive earring design.

Designer Profile | Lisa Shepherd

Taanshi Kiya’wow!

When I came across the website of Métis designer Lisa Shepherd and saw that greeting, I got very excited and wanted to learn more about this artist and her work.

Lisa Shepherd grew up in the Alberta prairies. She studied art throughout high school and college, and attended the University College of the Fraser Valley, graduating with a degree in Apparel Design in the Fine Arts Department. She says, "It isn’t by mistake that today I am designing, stitching and beading intricate moccasins, jewellery and garments." Indeed it seems as though her path to becoming an artist was always under her feet.