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739 Flora Avenue
Location Map
'7 Teachings'
HONESTY - RESPECT - COURAGE - HUMILITY - LOVE - WISDOM - TRUTH
24' X 9'
aerosol on stucco
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Location: NW corner Flora & Parr; North East and South Face of garage
Occupant: Flora House
District: North End
Neighbourhood: Dufferin
Artist(s): Peatr Thomas
Year: 2020
Painters: Painted with the help of Jon Ostash, for 'Flora House', an after school program based in the North End of Winnipeg.
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Peatr Thomas: "Eight year old me attempting to draw Indigenous art on paper, inspired by
my late older cousin Sheldon Young, and my older brother Alan Young, is where I would like
to say where it started for me. Come 1997/1998 living in the North End as a 10 year old kid
for a year and a half, attending Niji Mahkwa school on Flora Avenue. It's where I did my first
painting on deer hide stretched with a willow branch. Mr. Phillip Painter the native studies
teacher there at the time kept it all these years and gifted it to me in 2010 a day before he
retired, I just so happened to be visiting the school that day. My friend at the time told me his
uncle Richard Manoakeesick painted most of the Murals on Selkirk Avenue and got paid
money for it, that was mind blowing for me at the time, I was inspired that an Indigenous
person had the opportunity and ability to do such things, it became a dream of
mine."
"Twenty-two years later, I finally have a Mural in the North End. Years of work and self
discipline the dream is finally true."
"The design, painting process, and execution of this painting is beyond what I could have
hoped for."
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