Glenna Cardinal
ARTIST BIO
Glenna Cardinal is a Tsuut’ina Nation and Saddle Lake Cree Nation multi-disciplinary artist. She is the mother of two inspiring artists/musicians. She has a BSW from the University of Calgary 2015 and is a 2023 graduate of the Indigenous Master of Social Work program at the University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills, St. Paul, AB. Canada. The residential school turned university her father attended.
Her ongoing research is culturally based. As she explores the colonial history of the land that was where she grew up. Her home has become an eight-lane freeway, the Southwest Calgary Ring Road (SWCRR). This experience currently informs her art practice.
She is the child of residential school survivors past and present. She continues to live on Tsuut’ina Nation, the land of her maternal grandmothers. She is learning the nehiyaw and tsuut’ina languages.
ABOUT THIS WORK
“the Southwest Calgary Ring Road is built on the land my tsuut’ina family ranched, farmed, held ceremony on and raised their families on. We are no longer there.” – Glenna Cardinal
dirt – gutl’is, 2000’s
Description: seth and his brother Jericho are basking in the dirt on tsuut’ina Film
weaselhead road - chaguzagha-tsi tina, 1980’s
Description: home on tsuut’ina from the handlebars of a bike polaroid
