DELICIOUS PIES, SWEET TREATS, & COOL ART!

Stephanie is a contemporary, real Celtic-Canadian storyteller/comprehensive artist and is now in her third year+ of running Blueberry Pie Crumbs. With a background in the Liberal Western Arts and Indigenous Studies from TRENTU (2009-2014), she created a unique artist name from within in a decolonial stream, and has been running a street style fairy-punk brand ever since- while also developing a VERY yummy and rustic vegan dessert concept along the way!

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Originally from Nogojiwanong near the Odenabe and Gidaaki, she once used a little bit of her student loan to stumble upon the cliffs of Moher after learning about on-going Colonialism, and then started off with a blog called "decolonizing the starving artist". Then, shortly after pointing out a major design flaw in sports tech at work, and having the word "Katha" come to mind while writing a short story on the side for a competition, she was wished publication and became admired for "tackling complex structural issues" by Penguin Random House Canada while living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal in 2019 with a title called "From the Edge of my Canadian Dock". Then, while still surviving in a current system with complex structural issues and in the scratch one day, she realized and began Blueberry Pie Crumbs while living in Mi'kma'ki down East! Then, after starting to do a little independent, routine yoga not too long after to help with the stress of the complex structural issues (she’s never been to a yoga class), to her shock and surprise she was visited by an old ancestor known as the Cailleach/Danu in a dark cave in a dream (...and she looked like a shapeshifting, alien nature spirit with rusty sharp teeth (as if these teeth represent the earth's core herself perhaps!) or what otherwise might be known as a Neolithic Mother goddess version of the canniberry face she had already drawn up)! Then, she started creating a bakery after telling a local paper at a community yard sale event back home in Ontario she wanted to- and the rest is history as they say!

Blueberry Pie Crumbs was built from a naturally inherited relationship to an ethnorelative, decolonial path and body of work and experience with the land, resistance, resilience, and so, resurgence and reclamation of cultural and political identity from within, in the artistic, cultural, and political landscape in a decolonial stream (and that’s the point!). The Blueberry is connected to different historically complex places and cultures, and the PIE crumbs represent these ingredients! The PIE root for “ingredients” means to walk and enter…the root for “pie” can mean bird who collects ingredients (she didn’t know blue jays seeded oak trees before drawing her blue jay cartoon, and then had two acorns fall out of the bottom of a blue junk can right before going to draw her oak leaf cartoon once!) (That’s a different kind of infrastructure validation eh!). Did you know druids revered birds and oaks?! This isn't just perspective, this is fragments of real storytelling as a real Celtic-Canadian storyteller (real druidess) of the land, and leading, creative intellectual. So, this isn't spirituality, myth, or cosplay either- this is ancestral, strategy, ecological, cultural memory and interconnectedness, initiation, rite of passage, independent reasoning, and a very individual, mystical walk weaving mythos and a depth of lived knowledge in a non-religious framework. Evidently, serving cultural practices, creative infrastructure, and decolonial, economic development with her awen and something a little abstract!

She is the first and forever only woman in modern history to storytell anthropomorphizing a wild, old Grannie out of her hat giving some very old stone structures a run for their money! She is the first and forever only real, high Celtic lore keeper to resurge in thousands of years eh!

Indeed, sometimes you lose your snacks and sometimes you find them again, and the lore of the ancient times winds longer than some television cartoons...

…if the lore is a little too cute, well, it is what it is!

When she’s not drawing cartoons she’s often in the design studio creating all sorts of things (…and also has a forthcoming book on the way!) or baking up a storm!