The Creator's Gift Series: Kisê-manitow Omiyikowisiwin

2009
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This series depicting the Christmas story was created by Ovide Bighetty, a self-taught artist originally from the Pukatawagan First Nations in northern Manitoba.

“All of these paintings were taken from the Christmas story of when Jesus was born,” said Bighetty. Each painting comes from a particular passage of Scripture. “The first one shows when the angel visits Mary, telling her she’ll conceive. Each painting tells a different part of the story from the Luke and Matthew texts.”

Although his work distinctly follows the biblical stories of the Savior’s birth, says Bighetty, each painting also uses a range of native symbols, from figures of people and animals to scenes of the outdoors, that are painted in a particular style. Some of the images in the paintings in this series come from native lore while others he imagined himself as he contemplated the verses in the Bible. “I hope the story comes across in a certain visual way,” he said.

This series contains 17 posters.



The series can be purchased through the Indian Metis Christian Fellowship in Regina, SK - 1-306-359-1096.

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