Everyone is welcome to the opening reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Eastern time Thursday. Refreshments will be served.

Featured artists Bryan Welsh, Jamie Brotherton and Journey Brotherton all have connections to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.

Their work is informed and deeply enmeshed in traditional ways and teachings. They share their stories through their art.

Welsh is an Anishinaabe/Ojibwa artist of the Wolf Clan from Baraga, with additional Lakota ancestry through his father’s lineage.

Journey Brotherton

His artistic journey began early in life, guided by intuition, observation and a deep connection to land, spirit and community. Today, Welsh paints not only as an act of personal expression but as a form of cultural transmission and community connection. His work is rooted in Anishinaabe ways of knowing, where art is relational-interwoven with story, land, language, and spirit.

Through his paintings and teachings, Welsh shares knowledge, encourages creative confidence and inspires others to find and express their own artistic voices.

As both an artist and educator, Welsh continues to uplift community through art, carrying forward teachings of creativity, resilience, and cultural continuity.

Jamie Brotherton is a self-taught comic book artist who creates abstract paintings and comic book art. His illustration influences include Mobius, Waterson, and Barry Windsor-Smith.

Jamie Brotherton incorporates his contemporary native experience into his visual storytelling, fusing humor and philosophy into his work, while sharing the importance of dreams, spiritual connection, and growth.

“As an artist I have always felt like an alien in this world, seeing what others cannot. Paintings I make show the hidden world that lies behind what our eyes can see, the realm of spirit,” he said. “I find a space between waking and the dreaming, a crack there between the worlds, to bring in a vibration from these astral and akashic realms.”

The source of inspiration for Brotherton’s comic book stories comes from lucid dreams mingled with real life, encoding symbolic and archetypal techniques into a nonlinear tale to enlighten and entertain.

Journey Brotherton is an indigenous fashion designer and a full-time seamstress. She creates contemporary traditional art and clothing. She also creates traditional-style regalia including moccasins, ribbon skirts, shirts, jingle dresses, and bandoliers.

The design and construction of regalia components take many hours from the design phase to execution. Some pieces such as moccasins entail fine stitched beadwork with tiny glass seed beads in intricate designs.

Her special interests include travel, powwow dancing and spending time with her family.

The Kerredge Gallery is in the Copper Country Community Arts Center at 126 Quincy St. in Hancock. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, call 906-482-2333 or go to www.coppercountryarts.com.