Let me start by saying that our TRC Bobcaygeon Community group does everything by consensus.
During our planning process for bringing Drew Hayden Taylor’s play Cottagers and Indians to CLFN and the Lakeview Arts Barn plus the workshops and matinees for the schools, we decided that we needed a logo.
As fate would have it, the Kawartha Art Gallery sponsored a show for young Indigenous artists during the summer of 2018. Tiffany Knott of Curve Lake First Nation submitted a painting of a feather which she had designed to adorn her regalia as a shawl dancer in the CLFN pow-wow.
We approached Tiffany to see if she was interested in participating in our logo design by creating an image of a feather for us to use as part of the logo art. TRC Bobcaygeon members, Sandy McMullen and Ann Davidson worked together to produce multiple designs using the feather image with different fonts and placement.
It may seem simple but there are a lot of decisions that go into the end product… circle or not, feather to the left or right, fonts, font placement, colour. Ultimately the group decided the final layout. When there are many voices, it is a process. However we learn time after time that our end result is better for this process. It is a bit of a metaphor for reconciliation itself. We need to hear all voices and listen deeply to get to a good result.
The fact that they were made in Canada by union workers paid a fair wage using ethically sourced organic cotton made this a very good project from our perspective.
Don’t they look awesome?