People / The living archive
Practitioners, storytellers, makers, teachers and collaborators helping deepen our relationship with nature, place and one another.
People who know
Experience grounded in real work.
Stories to carry
Knowledge documented with care.
Rooted in place
Practices shaped by where they live.
A shared direction
Lasting Embers documents people and practical knowledge so the work can be discovered, learned from and carried forward.
Our ten-year directionRecord the knowledge, stories and practices that might otherwise be lost.
Bring people, places and ideas together through the archive.
Make practical knowledge available through stories, courses and field experiences.
Help useful work continue through the people who practice it.
6 profiles in the archive
Filmmaker · Documentary Storyteller · Educator · Founder
I’m a filmmaker, educator and builder interested in what happens when we pay closer attention—to people, to place, and to the knowledge that can easily disappear when nobody takes the time to document it. My work moves between documentary storytelling, teaching, field learning and building tools that help meaningful knowledge continue beyond the moment it was captured.
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Filmmaker · Forager · Educator
Kevin Kossowan explores what happens when we learn to pay closer attention to the places we live. Through foraging, wild food, filmmaking and time in the field, his work follows the relationships between landscape, season, food and culture — and the knowledge that emerges from participating in them.
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Herbalist · Ethnobotanist · Author · Educator
Robert Dale Rogers has spent more than five decades studying the relationships between people, plants, fungi and medicine. His work brings together field observation, traditional knowledge, clinical herbalism and contemporary research to understand the medicinal possibilities of the natural world — particularly the plants and fungi of the boreal forest.
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Artist · Writer · Educator · Nurse · Environmental Advocate
Larissa Muirhead’s work begins with relationship — to land, creativity, community and personal wellbeing. Based in northern Saskatchewan, she moves between art, writing, nursing education, environmental advocacy and land-based experiences, using each as a different way of helping people pay closer attention to themselves and the places they inhabit.
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Master Printer · Printmaker · Publisher · Educator · Collaborator
Jillian Ross has spent more than two decades learning what can happen when an artist’s idea meets the knowledge of a skilled printer. Her practice lives between craft and experimentation — ink, paper, pressure, chemistry, repetition and countless small decisions made collaboratively at the press. After nearly two decades working in South Africa, Jillian returned to Saskatoon and established Jillian Ross Print, carrying an international practice home while continuing the relationships that shaped it.
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Artist · Maker · Storyteller
Todd Gronsdahl is a Saskatchewan artist whose work uses sculpture, installation, drawing, found materials and invented histories to explore how stories become accepted as truth. His practice combines practical making with humour, rural sensibility and a willingness to play with the historical record.
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“We don’t need to know everything. We need to pay attention to what matters, learn from the people who carry it, and make sure there’s a path for it to continue.”
Preston Kanak
People.
Places.
Knowledge.
A more connected tomorrow.
Share your story
We’re interested in people whose knowledge, practice or perspective should be recorded — practitioners, makers, teachers and quiet contributors alike.
Yourself. What you hold, who you learned it from, and how you pass it on.
Someone else. We’ll always speak with them first — a nomination is a suggestion, never consent.
No rush. A person reads every one, and nothing is published without agreement.
