Sherry Crawford, White Bear Standing, is an Algonquin Woodland-style artist and a member of the Kijicho-Manito Madaouskarini Algonquin Nation. White Bear Standing Creative, 2014-present. Artist apprentice and Assistant to Curator, Tom Thomas Native Art Museum, 2010-2012. Owner and curator, Crawford Fine ART Gallery, Millbrook, 2014-2015. Education: Diploma, Social Service Worker, First Nations Technical Institute / St. Lawrence College, 2006; Indigenous Women in Leadership, Banff Centre, 2009; Archaeology Liaison training, Algonquins of Ontario, 2018. Practice: Woodland-style Algonquin painter working in acrylic, oil, ink, oil pastel, pencil, and digital media, as well as land art.

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Exhibitions: Peterborough In Portraits, Canadian Canoe Museum, Peterborough, 2013; Finding Critical Mass, Art Gallery of Bancroft, 2016; Georgina Arts Centre, 2017; Indigenous Art, Woodland Cultural Centre, 2018; drive-through Indigenous art exhibition, Peterborough, 2020; Culture Days, Scugog, 2023; Indigenous Expo, Bancroft, July 2025; Bancroft Fall Studio Tour, September 2026. Lanterns: Purple Paradise, Lunarfest GTA at the Varley Art Gallery, 2023; Let Your Spirit Soar, Lunarfest GTA at the Varley Art Gallery, 2024, and Cavalcade of Lights, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, November 30, 2024 - January 7, 2025. Reconciliation Gardens: White Bear Standing Reconciliation Gardens with Fraser Young (Ecostructure Canada); the first medicine wheel garden was completed in Bancroft in June 2023, and the Return to Shawashkong eagle land art is the third of seven gardens. Her own gallery opens in spring 2027. Press: SAY Magazine profile, 2023; Georgina Post, 2020; PtboCanada, 2021; Art Gallery of Bancroft artist page; Quinte Arts Council, 2024.

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© Sherry Crawford / White Bear Standing