Phyllis Grant - Artist - New Brunswick - Canada

Contact: phyllgrant@gmail.com

Phyllis Grant is a Mi’gmaq and Scottish multidisciplinary artist from Pabineau First Nation, New Brunswick. Working across visual art, animation, music, poetry, and community-based cultural practice, Grant’s work engages Mi’gmaq storytelling traditions while examining identity, memory, and cultural continuity through intergenerational knowledge and lived experience.

Grant’s visual work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba; Honor the Earth’s Impacted Nations touring exhibition in the United States; Irréductibles Racines in partnership with Le Congrès Mondial Acadien; and exhibitions in Rome at the Angelica Gallery and Foundation Besso, as well as in Toronto with the Associazione Romana Acquerellisti / Roman Watercolour Association. In 2010, she was selected as one of 15 artists across Canada to participate in Coca-Cola Canada’s Aboriginal Art Bottle Program during the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Animation is a key component of Grant’s practice. She directed Maq and the Spirit of the Woods and Waseteg with the National Film Board of Canada. Both films screened widely at international festivals and were presented at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. Waseteg was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award.

Grant’s work extends into music and sound-based storytelling. An East Coast Music Award nominee and SOCAN member, she hosts Vinyl Love Forever on Phantom FM, a program that foregrounds narrative, archival listening, and regional music cultures. She holds a Bachelor of Integrated Studies from the University of New Brunswick and was named a Canada 150 Ambassador with the title Distinguished Artist. Grant is currently developing new work through Welneweg, a family and community arts collective focused on language, art, and song revitalization.