Janet Morton is a Canadian artist who is famous for her knitted sculptures, although she started out as a painter. Her artwork has been showcased in galleries internationally. She is most famous for enshrouding her entire house in a knitted cozy. Janet is also known for having installed Greco-Roman style columnar covers for the hydro poles in her hometown of Guelph. These particular pieces are a commentary on the surrounding subdivisions that are increasingly taking over the local farm land, and are generally not made to withstand the test of time, reflecting a short-term way of thinking about housing and neighbourhoods as disposable. Her more recent works incorporate bits and pieces of found objects like bottle caps and other detritus.

Brent Sparrow, Jr. is a contemporary Musqueam carver. He was born in 1970 to his mother, Susan Point, who is a renowned artist in her own right. Sparrow apprenticed with her and Kwakwaka’wakw artist John Livingston. We know his work well from the welcome post we walk past every day on our way to the Scarfe building. This particular post tells the origin story of the Musqueam people and how they got their name. This and some of his other carvings are acts of reconciliation, art works that are building relationships between indigenous and settler communities in the lower mainland. His work incorporates the stories and teachings of the Musqueam people, represented in traditional shapes and design elements.