b'ARTIST PROFILEGRANDMOTHER MOON PAINTINGSIn a generous gesture, Cree artist Betty Albert helped facilitate the dona-tion of a set of 13 Grandmother Moon paintings to the Ontario Native Womens Association (ONWA). The 13 paintings were originally purchased from Albert by Don and Stephanie McKinnon, who had a large collection of art. The couple also helped Albert publish her Moon Journal and Dream Log in the late 1990s.Theres always somebody that comes around and helps you out, and I had somebody like that, Albert says. We had [the paintings] framed really nicely, like beautiful framing. That helped me publish the book I did, the Moon Journal and Dream Log.The six by nine-inch Moon Journal and Dream Log featured 13 segments that coincided with the moon cycle, with 28 days per cycle. All of the pages in the special edition planner were printed in colour, with each day having a space for writing down goals, notes and dreams and each moon cycle featuring one of Alberts 13 Grandmother Moon paintings.Albert says the series of 13 Grandmother Moon paintings was donated to ONWA after Stephanie McKinnon contacted her to ask what she could do with them as Don had passed on and she was downsizing and Albert felt the pull to her Cree roots. Sheselling her home.met some medicine people from Manitoba near Chapleau Cree, where she had builtONWA graciously accepted the donation and is committed to keeping a home and studio, and began attendingthe collection together. The association is currently dreaming on the site Sun Dance ceremonies with her two sons.where the collection will be displayed.I started to learn about ceremony and attended ceremony and eventually travelled to Manitoba and went to Sun Dance, and Ive been sun dancing since 2001, Albert says. My youngest son lives in Manitoba, he married a medicine mans daughter. [He] is a land-based therapist and works with inner city kids, bringing them into the bushBuilding Today. for Future Generationsand taking them fishing and hunting. T.E. Wealths dedicated Indigenous Services team Currently, Albert lives in Timmins, Ontarioprovides unbiased advice in the development of with her oldest son, who just finished hiscustomized and comprehensive investment and PhD in political science and is working as a political theorist with a tribal council. Imtrust solutions including:here right now because my daughter-in-law is finishing her masters degree and I have Planning and Developmenttwo grandchildren here, she says. Investment Policies & GuidelinesINSPIRATIONInvestment Manager Search & SelectionAs an artist, Albert has been developing and working on the same theme of women, Independent Performance Monitoringceremony and family, and has rarely veered from it. Its just grown. Im really happyLearn MoreI made that decision to choose that theme and to stick to it. Mind you, I do sometimes paint wildlife. I go through periods where IFor more information please contact 1-866-430-0537will do wildlife, but mostly I do the theme of women and family, she explains.Ontario Native Womens Association39'