way’ pcʕyap
hello, you have arrived
nsyilxcən greeting
Everything we make is made in relation.
To land. To people. To stories.
To the materials that carry us forward.
I am a syilx Okanagan interdisciplinary artist. My practice is grounded in the tmxÊ·ulaxÊ· and the relationships that continue to shape who we are.
Currently on View & Opening Soon
Every River Has A Mouth: The Visual Languages That Connect Us
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Feb. 14 2026 - Feb. 14 2027
Guest curated by Salish artist Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, this exhibition brings together the work of 11 Coast and Interior Salish artists working across sculpture, printmaking, textiles, painting, and mixed media. Together, their practices reveal the deep cultural, linguistic, and artistic relationships that flow across the Salish world.
The Structure of Smoke
UBC Okanagan Gallery
May 21 - Aug. 18 2026
Co-curated by Melanie O’Brian and Tania Willard, The Structure of Smoke explores artworks that problematize the poetic, structural and political aspects of fire. In a region where wildfires regularly impact our lives and the landscape, The Structure of Smoke assembles artists who conceptualize our relationship to this challenging force of nature. Throughout the exhibition, contemporary artists explore both the metaphorical and literal processes of fire and the spaces it creates and displaces.
Fireline Kinship
Vernon Public Art Gallery
May 29 - July 29 2026
Fireline Kinship is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Taylor Baptiste of the Osoyoos Indian Band and Syilx Okanagan Nation. Developed in response to intensifying climate realities in the Okanagan and the 2021 Nk’Mip wildfire, the work examines the relationship between fire, land stewardship, and cultural continuity, while reflecting on the processes of collective healing that follow environmental and community trauma.