A star-quilt of community dreams and fragments of the future stitched into one shared artwork created as the foundation to a community plan.
Location:
Millbrook First Nation, NS
Partner:
Millbrook First Nation and Nocturne Art Festival

Future Fragments is a participatory artwork that was created with Millbrook community members through a series of workshops in drawing, carving, printmaking, and sewing. The result is a larger-than-life patchwork quilt that holds individual + collective values, stories, experiences, and dreams for the future. This creative document served as the foundational engagement for the Millbrook Comprehensive Community Plan and informed everything from policies, to community structure, to future development and more. It also served as a demonstration of how community can come together and shape the future through creativity and collective action.
The quilt was showcased and celebrated during Nocturne art festival in 2023 in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Future Fragments was also awarded the Great Placed Art award for Place Art in 2025 from the Environmental Design Research Association, which celebrates projects that use art as a primary means of exploring people-place relationships and the immediate or far-reaching environmental and societal issues impacting those relationships.