41:, promoting art, language, and culture. As an artist, she works with a wide range of media. She directly responds to the problems of colonialism, and documents issues that reflect her life experiences such as spirituality, identity, urbanization, food security, resource extraction, trauma, and various forms of systemic violence. As a contemporary storyteller and cultural historian, her goal is to touch, move, and inspire others through her work. Her work employs traditional Semiahma forms of knowledge such as visual representation, oral history, and ceremony.
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Charles-George received a Paul Harris Fellow Award from the
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of arts and heritage in the City of Surrey and beyond,” for her work as an artist and educator. In 2019, she was nominated for the Lind prize.
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