Audrey Dreaver

Program Coordinator / Fine Arts Lecturer – Indigenous Communications / First Nations University of Canada
Plains Cree

Audrey Dreaver is a museum and fine art consultant, painter, art history, and studio arts teacher. Her family hails from the Mistawasis and Ahtahkakoop Cree Nations of Central Saskatchewan. She gained her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of Regina in 2015 where she studied Indigenous language loss, and what it means to be Indigenous and not speak your language. Before this she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, sculpture, and printmaking, and her Bachelor of Arts in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The loss of Indigenous languages has also been a topic of some of her recent artworks, a recent show of hers was titled NO. I do not speak Cree. Presented in paintings and prints, it details her struggles with questioning whether she is less Cree because she herself cannot speak Cree, though she has tried to learn several times. In the exhibition, Audrey Dreaver asks why her family lost their language and what that means for herself and other Indigenous people who have also lost their languages.

‍While working in her artistic practice, she is also working as the Program Coordinator, Indigenous Communications and Fine Arts, and Lecturer, Indigenous Fine Arts at the First Nations University of Canada located in Regina, Saskatchewan.