Philip Cote, MFA is an Indigenous Artist, Educator, Historian and Knowledge Keeper and is a graduate of OCAD University’s IAMD Masters program. As an Indigenous painter and Muralist, the purpose of Cote’s research is to unearth, and reveal, his cultural experience and knowledge of signs of Indigenous symbols, language and interpretation. Openings are thus created both within the archive/academia and broader public that enable these embedded stereotypes to transform under the gaze of an Indigenous based interpreted presence and intervene in the cross generational colonial bias. Philip is engaged in creating opportunities for art-making and teaching methodologies through Indigenous symbolism, traditional ceremonies, history, oral stories, and land-based pedagogy.