jayde micah designs

01/06/2025

12/29/2024

a big project i’ve been working for the last few months!!! so happy with them 😊

06/05/2024

what a weekend 🖤🖤🖤

i barely even have the words. what an amazing time with amazing people.

a HUGE chii miigwetch to my auntie for being my assistant for the Marketplace weekend! i would not have been able to do those long hours without you. you’re the best.

shoutout to my Atikameksheng homies! so proud of all of us for showing up to a huge event like this and making out community proud, we rock.

an absolutely GINORMOUS chiii miigwetch to and and your team for the work and dedication you all put into . i can’t even imagine how much work and time and effort goes into an event like this, but all of us artists are forever grateful for you persevering and making it happen.

and finally, to all my fellow artist, i appreciate you all so so so much. it has been so amazing getting to know you all more over the IFA weekend and i’m honoured to call you all friends and colleagues and relations. can’t wait to be in community again soon 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

06/03/2024

night four - ‘Materialize’ ⛓⛓⛓

06/02/2024

night three of - ‘From This Ground We Grow’ 🌱🌱🌱

06/01/2024

night two of - FIERCE + FEARLESS ⚡️⚡️⚡️

05/31/2024

my last few pieces are coming together and the Marketplace STARTS TOMORROW!!!

see you all there bright and early! 10am at the CF Eaton Centre 🖤🖤🖤🖤

05/31/2024

night one of - ‘My Tender Bundle’ 🖤🖤🖤

05/30/2024

we’re on our way!! on the train to toronto for

i saw .beading and post their travel pics w their IFA ‘22 tote and so i had to too 😌 see you all soon!!!

05/30/2024

how im feeling gearing up to attend ‘24 🥲

‘creator’s favourite’ will be available IN PERSON, at the Marketplace in the CF Eaton Centre in June 1+2 🍓🍓🍓

✨this one-of-a-kind beaded patch features 24K gold beads, rare venetian white hearts, vintage beads, charlotte cut beads, miyuki beads and is backed with home tanned hide✨

05/24/2024

SEVEN DAYS TIL MARKETPLACE VIBES 🖤🖤🖤

and we’ve got a new sticker! i feel like this one is particularly accurate in describing the feelings getting ready for my biggest market of the year 🤪

this new one, in addition to ALL my past stickers (they’re all listed on my website if you wanna browse), will be available at my booth at the Marketplace!!! find us in the CF Eaton Centre on June 1+2

05/21/2024

one of my favourite pieces on display in the ‘Radical Stitch’ exhibit. this piece is by Jobena Petonoquot

to be a little vulnerable for a minute, i have dealt with a good amount of ‘bullying’ and ignorant comments (especially recently on social media) about being white and not being the stereotypical version of what non-Indigenous people want a Native person to look like. these comments are always passive aggressive, hurtful and rude, and NEVER ask the right question - ‘who are your relations?’

i think it is so so important to be able to confidently communicate to other people who you are, where you come from and who your relations are. those are some of the most important questions you need to answer as a Native person. and for random trolls on the internet to claim that i am not Native or not Native enough because i’m not brown or because i have an alternative style is such bu****it. i try to not let it get to me, because i know who i am, i know where i come from, and i have SO MANY community members that vouch for my existence and contribution to community over my years (both in my home community and in ‘ottawa’, my current community). but it is still hard to see.

i think this piece also speaks a lot to the current epidemic of pretendians, and of folks purposefully profiting off of their Native identity without being active members of community. we need to be having more of these conversations. we can’t be scared. these questions NEED to be asked. of course there are nuances to the conversation, such as those scooped or those with intergenerational trauma, but if someone can’t answer these questions they need to think about why they feel the need to represent a community they are not involved in.

chii miigwetch Jobena for this beautiful piece and for starting this conversation. i can’t wait to see more of your works in the future 🖤