Phyllis Grant

Latest Update: January 2009

About the Artist:

Phyllis Grant is a Mi’gmaq artist from Pabineau First Nation, New Brunswick, Canada. She is the mother of three beautiful children.
Her artwork has been exhibited in Canada at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, and with Honor the Earth's "Impacted Nations", which toured in New York City, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and Chicago.
In 2004, Phyllis was nominated for an East Coast Music Award. She is a rap/spoken word artist and is known as MO3. Her first solo cd titled "Up Risin'", released in the summer of 2008, is nominated for a 2009 ECMA.
She feels the implementation of art, music and writing -as progressive forms of expression- lead to true cultural and spiritual understanding. Her contemporary observations connect and celebrate the people in her community with the patterns, swirls, forces and beats that exist in nature.
She is a Canada Council grantee for Writing and Publishing and is a member of the Writer’s Guild of Canada, The East Coast Music Association, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) and recently, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS)
In 2006, she completed her first film, “Maq and the Spirit of the Woods” -a children’s animation produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It has been selected and screened at several festivals, including the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, the American Indian Film Institute’s Film Festival in San Francisco, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and (currently) National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles and Washington DC. The film is also in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.
Phyllis's work is also featured in Pearson Canada’s “Literacy In Action” textbooks, launched Autumn, 2007.
She is currently directing her second animated film with the National Film Board of Canada (2008)
Contact Phyllis at:
ancestorca [at] yahoo [dot] com
Visit my website at:
www.phyllisgrant.com