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= Lauren Crazybull = Lauren Crazybull is a Blackfoot Dene visual artist who focuses on portrait painting, documentaries, and comics. She also is an advocate for justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women, and a mentor for Indigenous youth across Alberta, as well as an artistic facilitator.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
In 2007, Lauren Crazybull's aunt, Jackie Crazybull, was targeted by a group of males and stabbed in Calgary Alberta. As a result of her stab wound, Jackie Crazybull passed away, and as of 2018 no one has been prosecuted for her murder. Because of this tragedy Lauren Crazybull has dedicated a lot of her life to advocating for change and justice for the missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada. Her work in this field has included: speaking publicly about this issue at various places, such as SACPA in 2015, the Edmonton anarchist book fair, and the global news. She has also created multiple documentaries, sharing information and spreading awareness about justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women.

Indigenous Youth Advocate
Lauren Crazybull is passionate about helping Indigenous youth throughout Alberta, being a mentor and an artistic facilitator. She is the art coordinator in the iHuman youth facility, which helps young artists who face challenges and dangerous situations. She also helped organize an event at Caroline’s Junior and Senior High School for the group SPEAK which stands for “Students Promoting Equality and Acceptance through Knowledge”. Students took a vow of silence for 24 hours in order to support children who are denied basic rights, this gave them the ability to see what it was like to be silenced without a choice. Lauren Crazybull has also created documentaries discussing residential schools, and compares in her speech at SACPA how the foster system is the same as residential schools.

Art
Lauren Crazybull has a background in visual art, print journalism, as well as multiple skills in broadcasting. She creates portrait paintings, comics, line drawings, documentaries, and illustrations in books such as Obsidian Stone Wiya. Lauren Crazybull focuses her art around Indigenous identities. She aims to show, what she describes as, .. “the loss, disconnection, and trauma" that many Indigenous people, including herself, go through by living in a colonized world.

Lauren Crazybull's art has been published in multiple magazines; including Briarpatch, Shameless Magazine, The Walrus, Guts Magazine, and has been discussed in Canadian Art Magazine. Despite the fact she is an Edmonton based artist she has also been published in the Calgary Journal, and has traveled across Alberta to present some of her work.

Showcases

Lauren Crazybull has shown her work at various different festivals, events, and gallery's throughout Alberta; some of these have included:


 * Indigenous Litspace
 * Found Festival
 * Calgary Pride: Alternative
 * McLuhan House Residency Open Studio Event

Education
Lauren Crazybull went to University of Lethbridge as a Bachelor of Fine Arts Student. She majored in art studio and loved sociology. By her second year she was mentioned as a shining student in her undergraduate view book.

Awards

 * Presented with the "McLuhan House Residency Award" in 2018.

Works (2015 -2018)
Lauren Crazybull is a multi-talented artist and has created a variety of different types of art pieces; some of which includes:

Documentaries

 * Voices of the Silenced: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
 * True Contact: Resonating Reconciliation in Southern Alberta
 * Finding Clarity: Working Towards Reconciliation in Southern Alberta

Portrait Paintings

 * SNAP Gallery Feature Window Installation
 * SNAP Gallery Feature Window Installation #2
 * SNAP Gallery Feature Window Installation #3
 * Self Portrait 2018
 * Self Portrait 2017
 * Eyes Closed

Line Drawings

 * Glass Buffalo Winter Edition
 * Kinship 2017
 * You Should Be Grateful 2017
 * Kitsiikakomim Ikakimaat

Comics


 * Yegsad
 * Ghosted

Theatre Work


 * Set designer of Kiitistsinnoniks