{"id":5276,"date":"2026-07-10T15:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/?post_type=cu-people&p=5276"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:34:47","slug":"christie-belcourt","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/people\/christie-belcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Belcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christi Belcourt (apiht\u00e2wikosis\u00e2niskw\u00eaw \/ m\u00e2nitow s\u00e2kahikanihk<\/em>)\u00a0 is a visual artist, designer, community organizer, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and avid land-based arts and language learner.<\/p>\n

Christi is a visual artist with a deep respect for the traditions and knowledge of her people. Like generations of Indigenous artists before her, she celebrates the beauty of the natural world while exploring nature\u2019s symbolic properties. Following the tradition of M\u00e9tis floral beadwork, Belcourt paints in dots and uses the subject matter as metaphors for human existence to relay a variety of meanings which include concerns for the environment, biodiversity, spirituality and awareness of M\u00e9tis culture.<\/p>\n

Her paintings are found within many public and permanent collections across North America, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Gabriel Dumont Museum, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She was named Aboriginal Arts Laureate for 2014 by the Ontario Arts Council. In 2016, she received both the Premier’s Arts Award and a Governor General\u2019s Award for Innovation. In 2023 she received two honourary doctorate degrees, each from Algoma University (Doctor of Fine Arts) and Wilfred Laurier University (Doctor of Letters).<\/p>\n

Christi has also organized several large national community-based projects of note, including Walking With Our Sisters<\/a> (2012-2021), which was a national touring commemoration in honour of Murdered and Missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people, and the Willisville Mountain Project<\/a> (2010-2013), a community arts project which resulted in Vale Mining agreeing to not quarry the mountain. For the last 5 years, Christi and Isaac Murdoch (within their group\u00a0Onaman Collective<\/a>) have created artworks and worked on a long list of community organizing around environmentalism and Indigenous languages and cultural revitalization. They, with others, formed\u00a0Nimkii Aazhibikong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christi donates the proceeds from her collaborations and awards to Nimkii Aazhibikong, the year-round Indigenous language and traditional arts camp started in 2017. The camp is committed to the revitalization of Anishinaabemowin language, the arts and sustainable living practices based on foundational cultural knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[46],"yoast_head":"\nChristie Belcourt - The Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/people\/christie-belcourt\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/people\/christie-belcourt\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/people\/christie-belcourt\/\",\"name\":\"Christie Belcourt - 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