Amber Paquette is a Cree and Métis multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and the 6th Historian Laureate for the City of Edmonton. She was born and raised in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta.) Amber has worked as an artist, writer, educator and storyteller for several years. Her work with the public has centred on the historical representation of First Nations and Métis communities, as well her own contemporary expressions of Cree and Métis identity in the visual arts.
The Art Gallery of Alberta respectfully acknowledges that we are located in Treaty 6 Territory and Region 4 of the Metis Nation of Alberta. We respect this as the traditional and contemporary land of diverse Indigenous Peoples including the Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Beaver Cree, Nitsitapi/Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux/Ojibwe and Dene Peoples. We also acknowledge the many Indigenous, Inuit and Métis people who make Alberta their home today.