Mari is a mixed L’nu Mi'kma'ki Artist in Education and Policy Research with a background in Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Arts Theory, Philosophy and Dramaturgy. She has experience in Entrepreneurship and large project management, taking on roles such as Competitive Sport Coach, Educator, Entertainment Director, Choreographer, Creative Director, Curator, Fine Artist, Dancer, and Acrobat. The arts have brought her into Academic Research after creating several bodies of work that were inspired by her path of reconnection to community in Unama'ki, and the ancestral territory of the Mi'kma'ki. Mari is currently living in Tiohtià:ke on unceded Kanien'kéha Territory, working as an artist, culture creator and knowledge-maker. Her process based artistic works hold themes of belonging, identity, and embodied narratives. As a trans-disciplinary artist who works with multiple mediums and methodologies she moves between semiotics and visuality, memory’s role in knowledge creation, oral history traditions, and the ethics of interconnectedness. Her research focuses on topics such as: Identity Formation, Arts Based Research, New Methodologies and Indigenous Metaphysics, Cosmology and Ontology.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Winter-2026 Facilitator, Talking Circles, The Ethics of Relational Responsibility and Relational Pedagogy in Healthy Identity Formation, ENC, MTL, CA
Spring-2026, Residency Facilitator/ Researcher:“Portrait of Cole Bringsplenty", Image Based Research, Collaborative Arts Project, Visual Methods Studio, Ethnography Lab, Concordia, MTL,CA
Spring-2026-2027 Facilitator, New Pedagogies, Three Month Education Course in collaboration with Ecole National Du Cirque Outreach Programs, and Concordia, MTL, CA
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