Kyle Joedicke’s three-panel mural gives Sky Woman a permanent place in Hagey Hall
The Cayuga Woodland artist from Six Nations of the Grand River made the work for the School of Accounting and Finance, unveiled on August 11.
The School of Accounting and Finance unveiled a commissioned three-panel mural on August 11 in the Don Craig Atrium of Hagey Hall. Its artist, Kyle Joedicke, is a Cayuga Woodland artist from Six Nations of the Grand River whose practice draws on Haudenosaunee stories. He also made the University of Waterloo’s Indigenous Warriors logo and a mural inside the Tatham Centre.
The panels follow the Haudenosaunee Sky Woman creation story in order. The first shows her descent from the Spirit World, the second sacred plants growing on Turtle Island, and the third the harmony of the natural world. Joedicke said the work deals with a teaching about community and about reciprocal gifts.
Elder Myeengun Henry opened the gathering with a smudging ceremony. President Bill Rosehart, Dean of Arts Alexie Tcheuyap and school director Blake Phillips, who commissioned the work, took part. Phillips has long pushed to bring Indigenous knowledge and reconciliation into accounting and finance teaching.
The atrium is one of the busiest gathering spaces in Hagey Hall, so students, faculty and visitors will pass the panels every day.
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