Daphne Boyer Presents Li bootee mishiwayitay — The Beauty of It All
Visual artist and plant scientist Daphne Boyer presents Li bootee mishiwayitay — The Beauty of It All at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC. This powerful exhibition weaves together Métis peoples’ traditional handwork, digital technologies, plant materials, and porcupine quills.
Daphne Boyer Presents Li bootee mishiwayitay — The Beauty of It All
- Dates: On exhibition from April 25 to November 22, 2026
- Artist Tour of the exhibition Saturday April 25 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
- Location: Beaty Biodiversity Museum (2212 Main Mall, UBC)
- Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or at the admission desk on site
“I combine women’s traditional handwork, plant materials, and Métis knowledge systems with self-developed digital techniques to create contemporary artworks,” says Boyer. “Using my digital beading and digital quillwork, I build large-scale pieces from high-resolution photographs of porcupine quills, berries, moss, bark, and handcrafted plant-based materials.”
The exhibition honours Boyer’s great-grandmother Éléanore, itinerant midwife in Red River; her grandmother Clémence, a Michif-French-English interpreter who concealed her Indigenous ancestry to protect her children; and her mother Anita, self-taught naturalist and family archivist whose storytelling and research gave rise to the next generation’s celebration of Métis ancestry.
New habitat-based artworks explore ecosystems that have sustained Indigenous Peoples and all prairie beings since time immemorial. Included are pieces representing the Lac La Biche and Beaver Hills regions in Alberta, and a 6-metre (20-foot) finger-woven sash symbolizing the vast migratory watershed of the Métis Homeland.
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