{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Road to Your Name Podcast","title":"Road To Your Name - Season 8, Episode 10: A conversation with visual artist, Shayde Sandy","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2273,"description":"THE ROAD TO YOUR NAME / Yoha:te ne kahsen:na\nEpisode 10 — Shayde Sandy:  Portraiture, and the Metrolinx Bus Wrap\nThis episode was recorded in November 2025\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION\nIn this episode of The Road to Your Name, host Lisa VanEvery sits down with Shayde Sandy, a Haudenosaunee multidisciplinary artist from Six Nations of the Grand River who specializes in oil portraits. Shayde shares her journey from painting at her grandmother's kitchen table to earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at Queen's University, and how she found her signature medium and subject: oil portraits centering on her family and community. The conversation traces her creative evolution from acrylics to oils, her thesis portrait of her grandfather, and the moment her work — a piece from her Intergenerational Love series featuring her grandfather, brother, and cousin — was selected to wrap a Metrolinx GO bus for National Indigenous History Month. Shayde and Lisa also talk about the artists who've shaped her practice, the realities of building an art business as a young Indigenous artist, and what community encouragement means to her along the way.\nWHAT WE TALK ABOUT\n- Growing up surrounded by art — Shayde's grandmother's early encouragement and her father's work as a soapstone carver\n- The path from Brantford Collegiate Institute to Queen's University's Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) program\n- Learning printmaking techniques (silkscreen, intaglio, lithography) and why oil painting became her medium of choice\n- Her process: photo references, projector sketches, blocking in color, and layering detail\n- Painting as therapy, and working through long stretches of solitary studio time\n- The thesis portrait of her grandfather that became part of her ongoing Intergenerational Love series\n- Designing the Metrolinx GO bus wrap — the first Indigenous-designed bus wrap for National Indigenous History Month\n- Public exhibitions at Casa Loma, the Runway of Resilience, and an upcoming group...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EMAPSU_o9vetcBfJJ4OU41woZtyCGFgI7d9nIXpjEOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGM3/MjAxOGE0Njg1ZWVj/MWUxZTFkMzllNmI3/ZWQzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}