Beading with Nico – internationally recognized beader
DROP IN
Friday, January 24, 2025 | 11:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M.
Room 1214, Neville Scarfe Building
RSVP for catering purposes: cynthia.nicol@ubc.ca
Lunch and beads provided
- For more information contact: Dr. Cynthia Nicol
- Download a copy of the poster here | Beading + Story + Math = Community
- Indigenous Math Education Network
- Nico Williams: nicowilliams.com
Nico Williams
Nico Williams, is Anishinaabe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation currently working in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal where he just completed his MFA at Concordia University. Nico is an active member in the urban Indigenous Montreal Arts community, a board member for the Contemporary Native Art Biennial, and a member of the Contemporary Geometric Beadwork research team.
I choose to work with forms and objects that, like beadwork, have an overt—if often overlooked—relationship to gratitude, exchange and commerce, land, and the shaping, morphing ability of language. Sculptural geometries are a meeting point for technologies, stories, and lineages of knowledge.
Enjoy the following videos on Nico’s work:
- A video on Nico’s latest public beading sculpture, Monument to the Brave, for the Toronto Sick Kids Foundation 2021.
- A video by National Geographic (2018) featuring Nico and his work.
And recent CBC articles on Nico’s beading projects:
This Anishinaabe artist uses beaded lottery tickets to scratch at Indigenous history
Ojibway artist’s beadwork sculptures tell stories of traditions and contemporary life