Cheryl l'Hirondelle
| Cheryl L'Hirondelle | |
|---|---|
| Native name | mihko-pîyêsiw iskwêw |
| Born |
Cheryl Lynn Koprek September 20, 1958 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Known for | Music, Performance Art, New Media |
| Website | www.cheryllhirondelle.com, www.treatycard.ca, www.wepinasowina.net, www.artinjun.ca, www.ndnspam.com |
Cheryl L'Hirondelle (also Waynohtêw, Cheryl Koprek; born September 20, 1958) is an multidisciplinary media artist, performer and award-winning musician. She is of Métis/Cree-non status/treaty, French, German, and Polish decent. Her work is strongly tied to her cultural heritage. She explores a Cree vision of the world or nêhiyawin through body, mind, emotions, and spirit, examining what it means to live in contemporary space and time.
L'Hirondelle was born in Edmonton, Alberta (amiskwaciy-wâskahikan), Canada. Her mother's family is from Papaschase First Nation, Alberta, and they also lived at Kikino Metis settlement for several years. L'Hirondelle's father emigrated from Germany as a young man shortly after WWII, and initially worked as an inventor for CIL and then later, in the oil industry moving the family around the western provinces to be near many of his gas plant startups. The family eventually moved to Calgary in 1964, where she attended St. Margaret's Elementary and Junior High School. Her last name (L'Hirondelle, her mother's maiden name) means swallow, a "migratory swift-flying songbird."
She spent a year at the Alberta College of Art from 1980-1981, and immediately afterwards attended a 2D course at the University of Calgary for one summer session. She attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada in 1990 and also studied voice, theory anad composition privately for several years previous to that. She also studied to be a yoga teacher through Calgary Yoga Centre and Herbology at Wild Rose College of Natural Healing in Calgary. In 2015 she graduated with an MDes in Inclusive Design, from OCAD University, receiving the OCAD University President's medal. In 2016 she became a PhD candidate with SMARTlab at University College Dublin (UCD) and where she was awarded an Irish Research Council Enterprise scholarship grant in collaboration with Irish world music group's record label Kíla Records.
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