Megan Samms is an L’nu and Nlha7kápmx visual artist who, drawing from her varied practices, works collaboratively with various mediums and disciplines to articulate story, messages, and continued dialogue within her historic and contemporary place-based contexts.
She’s known for weaving and natural dye work, but uses photo, and performance interventions to remember/(re)member and triangulate entangled presence and relationality with place and time, contributing to rebuilding the narrative of her lived-in territory; Samms considers her work an invitation for viewers to consider alternative methods of coming to knowledge and narrative.
Motif-making, embodied research, weaving, and skin marking are the most important acts of presencing in Megan’s practice. Samms is a collaborator and an emerging Ancestral Skin Marker who is currently an apprentice with mentors Dion Kaszas, Keith Callihoo, and Jerry Evans. She lives in her home community in one of their two ancestral territories: Katalisk, Ktaqmkuk, Mi’kma’ki, Wabanaki Territory.
The Sow to Sew Speakers’ Series is part of the Sow the Sew Project at NSCAD University, which is funded by a generous donation from The Hilary & Galen Weston Foundation.
