Ojibwa Woman Healing 2018
Each print 14" x 9"
This project was created for an artist residency at the Grand Marais Artist Colony in Grand Marais, Minnesota. I did eight woodblock prints which centered on botanical plants native to that region which were used by the Ojibwa people to heal women’s health issues. I created narratives which would incorporate the plants used in daily life.
This project was partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Hungry Baby Gets the Milk
Spreading Dogbane
Apocynum androsaemifolium
The Murmuring Plants Help A
Long Delivery
Blue Cohosh
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Why the Speedy Girl Slowed Down
Meadowsweet
Spiraea tomentosa
Vanishing Woman’s Permanent Reappearance
Red Baneberry
Actea rubra
Lonely Woman Gives Pain Relief and Finds Friendship
Trillium
Trillium grandiflorum
The Girl That Vanquished An Ogre
Jack in the Pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
The Fisherwoman Catches A Magic Herb
Artemisia
Artemisia frigida
Easing a First Birth
Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia