Meet Regina’s Indigenous artist in residence, Jessie Ray Short

REGINA — It has been an active year so far for Regina’s Indigenous artist in residence, Jessie Ray Short.

Short, who has Métis, Ukrainian and German background, is an artist and a filmmaker and is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Regina. She was selected through an application process for the Indigenous artist-in-residence role and is now about midway through her residency.

"Basically this gives me the opportunity to focus more fully on my project while the residency is happening to get some new artworks created," said Short.

For her project, Short says she proposed "writing a short film script and also making some art, like physical objects that will accompany that film script, sort of like the narrative themes of the script."

The short film script is inspired by Rugaru