14-year-old Izaiah Masuskapoe decided to sketch out a logo for the Edmonton Elks CFL football team during his art class at St. Thomas More Junior High, in west Edmonton. He was inspired by the BC Lions logo that was displayed on their orange t-shirts for Truth and Reconciliation Day, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did an Indigenous version of their home logo,\u201d Masuskapoe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMostly, I knew [the] BC Lions had a logo. I just looked at it and said, \u2018oh I should do a Elks.\u2019 I did a first drawing in pencil so I showed my art teacher, Ms. Piekema the drawing and she said like, \u2018you should do a much better one,\u2019 and she\u2019ll show it to the Elks. So that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI added a feather to it to represent for like the Indigenous children, [the] survivors of the residential schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piekema did just that and sent it to Chris Presson, the CEO and president of the Edmonton Elks. The drawing touched him so much he is going to put it on an Elks orange t-shirt.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt actually did move me in a way I didn\u2019t think it would,\u201d Presson says. \u201cBut because he did it in an art class, and his teacher is the one that emailed me and said, \u2018I have a student, he\u2019s in Grade 9, here\u2019s the art he produced, here is why he produced it,\u2019 and immediately, you know, just to be that aware and to understand, and to have something that is educational for me, that came from someone in Grade 9, was really such a positive thing. And it\u2019s really from that point: we talked to the leadership team, as to what we can do and how we can benefit him and how we can [help others] benefit\u00a0 from his work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presson says it\u2019s great to see young artists incorporating reconciliation into their art like Masuskapoe did.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything we can do to continue to educate, to continue to reconcile the wrongs and to express ourselves with words and through art, I think it\u2019s a homerun every time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presson says the logo will be on the orange t-shirts that will become available for sale after Oct.29.<\/p>\n
Some of the proceeds of the orange t-shirt sales will go to a charity of Masuskapoe\u2019s choice. He chose the Stollery children\u2019s hospital, said Daniela Stabile, principal\u00a0 at St. Thomas More Junior High School.<\/p>\n
Stabile is furthering Masuskapoe\u2019s artistic endeavors too. She approached him last week about a school art project and said Masuskapoe agreed to do the school\u2019s logo to put on orange shirts as well.<\/p>\n
For further information, check out the Elks Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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