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My name is Colleen Gray. I established Art for Aid in 2013 to support Indigenous resource challenged communities in remote Canada. I collect new and gently used art supplies and ship them to schools. We are volunteer run and provide our service free to the schools.

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The Weight of the World

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Weight of the World

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Our Mother the Earth is worn and living through the burden of our reckless creation without end. The trees and flowers hunger for love and comfort, the water and the earth seek pity from a source that has no soul and no time for learning. (Inconvenient nature). Our Mother the Earth gives more, ever more, out of l...

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The Underground

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Underground

- 16x20 archival print - digital slice by Colleen Gray The Little People move through our world hidden and elusive, hiding among the shadows and playing mischievous games. They hide things, tricks us and, are seen often from the corner of the eye in the deep forest. It is said that if you are kind to them, they will care for your family in troubled times. Wh...

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The Story Tree

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Story Tree

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A woman finds a blanket with stains of blood in the weave. She takes it to a Story Tree and places it there with her tobacco, and a request to know more. When she returns, the tree shares the story of the blanket with the woman under the midday sun. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the i...

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The Standing Ones

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Standing Ones

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Standing Ones are what we call the trees. In great cities the Standing Ones of the forests are silenced by the concrete giants. But through the Earth and through the Waters they both speak their stories. This painting can be viewed upside down. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to pro...

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The Ice Cave

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Ice Cave

- 16x20 archival print Story: The ice melts, the earth warms, and secret places are made known to the hungry. Old spirits, long resting, are awakened amid the heaving and groaning of the planet. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Prints are ready to drop into a 16x20" frame...

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The Horse Blanket

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Horse Blanket

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: He knew the wild horses. A medicine dream showed him a vision. In it he became a yellow horse running beneath the moon with the wind and the storm. He awoke to the sound of thunder. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Prints are ...

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Fragments

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Fragments

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Everywhere, she hears the voice of her child, hears the jingle of her dress beneath the arbor. She hears her bird-laugh in the passing crowd, and feels her elusive spirit moving through the whisper of a summer storm. It's been so long that she's gone and still, still - she is always right here. NOTE: ALL prints h...

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Teaching The Two Leggeds

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Teaching The Two Leggeds

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Sacred Wolf Messenger grows weary of the ways of the Two Leggeds and he raises council with Creator to speak of his concern. He feels the impotence of his voice among the Creator's children and seeks the strength to continue to teach those who will not hear, and will not learn. NOTE: ALL prints have a white b...

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Sun Song

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Sun Song

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Great Wolf Teacher sings to Grandfather Sun. He is grateful for the warmth that seeps into his skin. Grandfather loves the ache out of his old bones and the two know each other in that gentle moment. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment you...

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Stealer of Gold

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Stealer of Gold

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Stealer of Gold - A conversation between the Raven and the Creator. Story: "Creator, why do your children love the golden stone so much? I have seen them kill for it and die for it. I have stolen their stone and taken their power. I am only a young raven who must know why." The Creator smiled. "The golden stone is but a...

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Salmon Oil

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Salmon Oil

- 16x20 archival print Story: The salmon speaks for the least of the river's creatures. The Orca cries for the pain of their beloved salmon, the bears weep, the people pray, and the black death moves ever further down the river of life. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Pr...

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Red Bear In The Sun - 16x20 archival print

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Red Bear In The Sun - 16x20 archival print

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: What do the animals think of us; when we destroy the trees and rape the land, when we steal the sun with industry and greed, what do they think of us? Artist's Note: Since the moment the paint dried in 2018, people have had a differing opinion about this being a bear or a wolf. I have said yes to both sides. Spir...

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Polar Bear Talks To The Moon

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Polar Bear Talks To The Moon

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Great Bear of the North speaks with Grandmother Moon about his home and the creatures who live there. He speaks of starvation, of strange human things called plastics poisoning the food. He asks if there is anything the animals can do. "Love them until the love breaks their hearts open", she said. "This is th...

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Matoki

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Matoki

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: She is a proud Matoki, a woman of the Medicine Society. She speaks her morning prayers to Grandfather Sun, asking for a great healing to be brought to people who suffer in a world gone mad with a disease of the heart. This is all that she can do. (Little is known of the Matoki Medicine Women Society of the Blackf...

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Making The Water

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Making The Water

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A Holy Woman travels to the Grandfather Sun to ask for water for her people's crops so the children can eat during a difficult time. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Prints are ready to drop into a 16x20" frame.

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Life Beneath The Shelf

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Life Beneath The Shelf

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray There are creatures in our world who have an intelligence that we could learn from. They exist in their world in harmony with all things. They are unseen but never unaffected by our inability to do the same. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your f...

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Home-

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Home-

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The true meaning of home is not some place on a map. The foundation of a life is a moveable and fluid thing that binds itself to the hide and poles; it lives in the small pockets of well worn grooves, and in the ties that bind it all together. The seeds of a home take root in the heart of the home fire. They are ...

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Womens Prayers

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Womens Prayers

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Thirteen Grandmothers pray under the fullness of the Sturgeon Moon. There is a moment when they become one with the First Grandmother, and all the prayers spoken for all the women lost, are gathered by a Spirit Helper. They are brought to the heart of the Grandmother Moon in a great ascension where all prayers ar...

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Eclipse

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Eclipse

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A Sundance Warrior stands with his tobacco in hand, offering pitiful prayers and dusty tears to the union of Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon. The wind calls the tobacco from his fingers. The sun turns its gaze to the warrior and his scars shine with the memory of their making. NOTE: ALL prints have a white b...

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Eastern Sunrise

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Eastern Sunrise

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A tribute to the beautiful Salmon, who’s life, gives life. Grandfather Sun rises as our Mother the Earth turns her face to greet him. Their union awakens life. Beneath the steel grey ocean, the Eastern Salmon moves through the water with quiet grace in silent waters. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around th...

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The Cedar Bath

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Smiths Falls, Canada

The Cedar Bath

- 16x20 archival print Story: Her Grandmother made her a cedar bath. A sacred one. She felt the water whisper into her blood, "I love you." The cedar touched every tired bone and the spirit of the Standing Ones sang her to sleep. They held her right there in the middle of the earth with their powerful roots while the soil drank her sorrow. - Inspired by an E...

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Bristle Cone Pine 432

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Bristle Cone Pine 432

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Standing Elders have seen the birth of stones and the passing of time. They have marked the passage of ancient civilizations, breathing in, breathing out, living on, giving life. We are small and insignificant in their shadow, existing only to take while they exist only to give. Watercolor and ink on 16x12" A...

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Ask Your Grandmother - 16x20 archival print

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Ask Your Grandmother - 16x20 archival print

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A young woman seeks guidance. She is on a vision quest and seeks answers. "Ask your Grandmother", whispered the wind. "Bring tobacco", spoke the stone. "Love me", cried the waters at her feet. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. ...

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Dancing For The Earth

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Smiths Falls, Canada

Dancing For The Earth

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Beneath the cottonwood trees, a young woman dances for our Mother, the Earth. Her prayers are wet with heavy tears and her buffalo robe wears the colours of creation in kinship with her broken heart. The buffalo gather to hold council. What can be done to restore the balance, to heal from humanization. NOTE: ALL ...

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