Pamela Desmet Franklin

Pamela Desmet Franklin Pamela Desmet Franklin is a multiplatformed artist based in the Treaty 1 Territory of Winnipeg, MB.

The work of Pamela Desmet Franklin, a white cis-gendered settler female living on Treaty 1 territory, comprises inspiration and images from the natural world: photographs, mixed media/collages, watercolours, acrylic paintings and fabric arts. She has exhibited her art at Fleet, Cre8ery, MAWA and Prairie Fusion Arts & Entertainment Galleries and Martha Street and Tapestry in Glass Studios as well a

s Sun Country Arts & Crafts. Available: PFA&E Gift shop and alternative gallery spaces: El Spa and Gordie’s Coffeehouse.

Khaled Abu Zarr/Khaled Walid Mahmoud Abu Zer was killed on November 8, 2024 by an Israeli Defense Forces airstrike witho...
04/19/2026

Khaled Abu Zarr/Khaled Walid Mahmoud Abu Zer was killed on November 8, 2024 by an Israeli Defense Forces airstrike without prior warning or notice, in Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, Palestine. Khaled Abu Zarr was married and worked for Sawt Al-Shabab radio as a sports journalist and correspondent. From his photo on stopmmurderingjournalists.com, he looks like he enjoyed a good game and was a big soccer fan.

To commemorate the 284+ Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by the State of Israel since 2023, has asked Manitoba makers to create squares for the Collective Press Blanket Project. These are being sewed into panels and travelled across MB to raise awareness of Palestinian oppression, apartheid and genocide. Funds raised will be donated to organizations keeping evidence of genocide and prosecuting war criminals.

Making this quilt block was a solemn process for me. As I sewed each piece I was aware
it was commemorating Khaled Abu Zarr’s life and so worked carefully and with reverence. The colours and threads were chosen in reference to the Palestinian flag. With quilting conventions in mind, fabrics were chosen to express both the solemnity and finality of death as well as the joyfulness and youth of a fully rounded human being who was just trying to live peacefully with his wife and do his job. The appliquéd soccer ball in the centre of the quilt design, which was generously shared by , references his love of the game, his career and joie de vivre!

Parallel Pathways has found a new home thanks to the bidder at MAWA ’s Over-the-Top Cupcake & Art Auction!
04/12/2026

Parallel Pathways has found a new home thanks to the bidder at MAWA ’s Over-the-Top Cupcake & Art Auction!

Art Auction today at MAWA; come down to support a worthy cause & have some fun!
04/12/2026

Art Auction today at MAWA; come down to support a worthy cause & have some fun!

Grandma Waller’s original quilt pieces: soft fine white cotton with coral pink corner squares. Remembering her house on...
03/29/2026

Grandma Waller’s original quilt pieces: soft fine white cotton with coral pink corner squares. Remembering her house on Horace Street and feeling her presence finishing this inherited fabric with a modern flair. One of four pieces quilted and ready for some machine sewing to become a future toss cushion! Many thanks to Anna Schmidt , maker in residence for her guidance & expertise.

Some journal pages from recent travels.
03/27/2026

Some journal pages from recent travels.

A morning stroll through Qutub Minar UNESCO world heritage site in Delhi.The Qutub Minar minaret and mosque complex, bui...
03/20/2026

A morning stroll through Qutub Minar UNESCO world heritage site in Delhi.

The Qutub Minar minaret and mosque complex, built between the late 11th to 12th century after the defeat of the last Hindu ruler of Delhi, signalled the beginning of Islamic rule in the region. The fusion of Hindu laborers and craftsmen overseen by Muslim architects led to a construction reflecting both Hindu and Islamic religious architectures. The marvellous inscriptions and geometric patterns on the structures are a compilation of Quranic texts, Arabic expressions and Hindu craftsmanship. Destroyed temple pieces from the original site were used to build the Qutub Minar and a trace of Hindu goddess forms situated in the architecture are not unlike those seen later in the journey to Angkor Wat.

Inspired by embroidery motifs in Delhi, I drew this design on a larger scale and used a thicker gauge of embroidery thre...
03/19/2026

Inspired by embroidery motifs in Delhi, I drew this design on a larger scale and used a thicker gauge of embroidery thread. The white silk thread was purchased from a fine art collective in VN. The handmade sanyasi jacket size 10, bought 50 years ago in Pune, is made from khadi cotton, a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as swadeshi (of homeland) for the freedom struggle of India.

My work spirals across mediums to best represent ideas about deterioration/loss and connection/regeneration. In the exh...
01/21/2026

My work spirals across mediums to best represent ideas about deterioration/loss and connection/regeneration. In the exhibit, Connection at MAWA with Artist Mothers 2.0 group my work comprises images from the natural world in collograph printing and embossing, silk dyeing with fibre reactive dyes & embroidery as well as weaving with silk & wool on a found object.

At MAWA Artist Mothers 2.0 Exhibit Connection til 01/26Only Connect Triptych 20243 colograph prints on archival paper17”...
01/16/2026

At MAWA Artist Mothers 2.0 Exhibit Connection til 01/26
Only Connect Triptych
2024
3 colograph prints on archival paper
17”x 16”
Prints available from

Focusing on continuous climate catastrophe in our experience of this 6th mass extinction I ask, “What will the world look like when there are no humans to perceive it? How might survivor species’ “eyes” see the world.”The triptych prompts us to imagine a future of extinction as one of many species in a changing world. As earth evolves, it may change so much and so rapidly that ways of being and experiencing it will alter to the extent as to render phenomena unimaginable to our perception. As mothers and stewards of earth’s legacy we can identify and change the disconnect that is leading us to that future.

Going to Ground, From the Garden of Earthly Delights Series2025mixed media embroidery on hand dyed & embroidered silk, e...
01/05/2026

Going to Ground, From the Garden of Earthly Delights Series
2025
mixed media embroidery on hand dyed & embroidered silk, embroidery thread & wooden hoop
Works available from artist

My work spirals across mediums to best represent ideas about deterioration/loss and connection/regeneration. In the exhibit, Connection at MAWA with Artist Mothers 2.0 group my work comprises images from the natural world in collograph printing and embossing, silk dyeing with fibre reactive dyes & embroidery as well as weaving with silk & wool on a found object.

My Broken Heart, From the Garden of Earthly Delights Series2025mixed media weaving with hand dyed & embroidered silk, wo...
01/03/2026

My Broken Heart, From the Garden of Earthly Delights Series
2025
mixed media weaving with hand dyed & embroidered silk, wool & unknown fibres, found metal badminton racquet reclaimed from the shallows of Lake Winnipeg
At MAWA with Artist Mothers 2.0 exhibit, Connection

Manitoban visual artist, Pamela Desmet Franklin, (BEd) draws strength from nature, community and connections with her ancestral past in order to enhance the communicative and intuitive nature of her art. She is inspired to amalgamate images, stories and energy from these sources into her work. Living on Treaty 1 land, she creates the art of objects within the natural world less as specimens of colonial collecting and extraction and more as interactions or gateways to
use found, created and/or collected objects as subjects of personal and global narrative.

Happy New Year! Friday Jan 2 Opening Night & First Friday!
01/01/2026

Happy New Year! Friday Jan 2 Opening Night & First Friday!

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