Indigenous Spotlight: Traditional Tattooing with Stacey Fayant
Channel: Saskatoon Public Library
Date: 2021-07-10

Welcome back to Indigenous Spotlight! Today, Stacey Fayant is here to demonstrate traditional tattooing!

Stacey Fayant is Métis, Nehiyaw and Saulteaux on her father’s side and French on her mother’s side and is a member of the Peepeekisis First Nation. She is a visual artist and Cultural Tattoo Practitioner from Regina, Saskatchewan. Her art practice has always focused on concepts surrounding identity and trauma in relation to colonialism and racism, but also in relation to family, community, and healing. 

For Stacey, being involved in the revitalization of Indigenous tattoo practices is an opportunity to offer a gift back to her community. She believes working with ones hands is a means of healing and meditation and can help focus the mind and heart on something good.