Juniper Art Collection
The Juniper Art Collection
Welcome to the Juniper Hotel Art Collection. Our collection focuses on Indigenous art, featuring artists from coast to coast to coast. Indigenous artists fought for many decades for representation in the art world.
Six major Indigenous language groups share living memory of the Bow Valley, home of the Sacred Guardian Buffalo Mountain and the Holy Springs. At the Juniper Hotel, we celebrate Indigenous creativity with our contemporary art collection, showcasing First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists from coast to coast to coast.
The collection holds particular significance for Canadian art history: it includes original work from every one of the seven founding and associated members of the Indigenous Group of Seven, the artists who, beginning in the 1970s, fought for Indigenous art to be recognized on its own terms rather than dismissed as “craft.” Seeing their work gathered together, here, is rare.
But this collection isn’t meant to be viewed quietly from a distance. Many of our staff have their own favourite pieces, and their own reasons for loving them – feeling matters here as much as expertise. We’d encourage you to ask.
Red Bear – Jackson Beardy
We invite you to explore the pieces throughout the hotel at your own pace.
Bison Head – Don Hefner
Discover First Nations Art
In this short video (1 min 43 sec), Juniper Hotel & Bistro principal Peter Poole and Roy Lewis of Samson Cree Nation, Maskwacis, talk about the collection’s connection to six First Nations language groups, and why it belongs here.
Land Acknowledgement
We welcome you to Banff and the Bow Valley. This has long been a place where early peoples came in peace. There is deep and enduring memory of this valley held by Ktunaxa, Secwepemc, Métis, Tsuu’tina, Mountain Cree, Blackfoot, and Stoney Nakoda peoples. We acknowledge both the Treaty of 1877, Treaty Seven, and the Treaty of 1895 between the salmon and buffalo peoples. We are grateful to live here and live together with all our relations.