jaz whitford is a Vancouver-based mixed secwe̓pemc and settler interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism and anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected but valued and revered. using a range of materials, forms and mediums they work to investigate and express their lived experience an understanding of spirituality, resistance, ancestral connections, and community care. Their work has recently been presented at Access Gallery, Bill Reid Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery, and published in Rooms magazine.