On Wholeness
with Quill Christie-Peters
Hosted by Amy Ede
In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science History Memoir
My work centers on an Anishinaabeg conception of art-making that focuses on the processual building, strengthening and reclamation of all my relations through artistic practice. When I paint, I enter into a conversation with my ancestors and those relations that exist beyond the material plane, making my practice an explicitly spiritual one that allows me to communicate knowledge I cannot otherwise express.
Join us for an exploration of the body as a site of settler colonial impact, centring embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation.
Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility as pathways to wholeness, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting with the body can be an act of resistance and healing. She shows that wholeness—despite pain and displacement—is not just possible but essential for liberation, not only for Indigenous people but for all of us.
In poetic and raw storytelling, Quill shares her own experiences of gendered violence and her father’s survival of residential school, revealing how colonialism disconnects us from ourselves. Yet, through an Anishinaabe lens, the body is more than just flesh—it extends to ancestors, homelands, spirit relations, and animal kin.
On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation reimagines the way we understand settler colonialism—through the body itself. On Wholeness takes us on a journey that begins before birth, in a realm where ancestors and spirits swirl like smoke in the great beyond.
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