brianna oversby
they / them
I am a facilitator, teacher and artist/maker with over 10 years experience building curriculum and facilitating creative and justice-focused learning spaces for youth & adults. My work and practice has taken me to New York, Montréal, Boston, and home to Manitoba.
I am currently teaching visual arts and human ecology in rural Manitoba.
I have worked in K-12 schools with students, parents and teachers specializing in creative learning, healing-informed practice, and Indigenous education. I also have experience with adult education–developing training for arts teachers, and very briefly with educational development at the college level.
I am comfortable facilitating online and am fluent with a wide range of digital engagement and learning tools.
I grew up around Manitoba, and spent my teens in Alberta, but consider the west Interlake area of Manitoba where both of my parents are from my home. My family are Métis, German, British & Irish settlers.
I moved home to Manitoba in 2021 to be closer to my family and am now living, working and making stuff on Red River & Treaty 1 Territory.
I am a queer person and a proud member of the MMF Two-Spirit Michif Local.
Creative & healing-informed learning.
Creative & healing-informed learning.
Making things is a great way
to understand the world.
I have spent my life crafting and building things. This experience has grown into a real obsession with the process of making, and how we can heal and learn through creative practice.
I am constantly seeking out and developing new skills for creating, and hope that my work will open possibilities for others to find that same fiery curiosity for discovering what they don’t know, and making what they need.
I love to work with groups of students and teams to build learning communities rooted in care and justice.
Education
I earned my BFA with a specialization in Art Education from Concordia University and completed my Ed.M at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) where my focus was to develop teacher training on healing-informed practice. While at HGSE I participated in the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights Child Protection Certificate Program. In 2021 I completed Introductory Wise Practices in Indigenous Leadership training at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.
These programs, along with many relatives, teachers, colleagues and students, have shown me what is possible through creative and holistic learning.
