Monica Martens on Clubhouse

Bio

Student and teacher. Maker and unmaker. Settler and unsettler.

Living on Treaty 1 land, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Dakota and homelands of the Métis Nation. Near what is also known as Winnipeg, Canada.

My being is my art practice.

Things that are important to me:
time in a nature dreamtime,
sleeping in,
feeding birds,
arts-based research,
snow storms and thunderstorms,
keeping water in the bird bath,
reading books,
learning from children,
Metta,
liberation,
making blankets,
writing,
relational ways of being and knowing,
de/colonization,
Ethiopian food,
fountain pen and notebook,
winter fires,
unconditional positive regard,
family (chosen and blood),
cilantro,
the prairie,
land-based learning
performative inquiry
...

Educator by day. Curiosity enthusiast. Imagination nurturer. Aries. Sagittarius rising. Wrap me in a quilt and bury me under the trees when I die. Wonderer. Wanderer. I play Fortnite on my phone. Born to expats in Botswana. Canadian. In my next life I’ll be a student of the arts or a midwife. Baby storyteller. MEd student currently at the thesis proposal stage. Perpetually in a fight with some system in an institution. Dreaming of building new worlds and ways of being.