Kaya Joan is a multi-disciplinary Afro-Indigenous artist living in T’karonto (Dish with One Spoon treaty territory). Kaya’s work focuses on placemaking, non-linear temporality, and blood memory. Afro and Indigenous futurity and pedagogy are also centred in Kaya’s practice-working through buried truths to explore how creation can heal seven generations into the past and future. Kaya has been working in community arts for seven years as a facilitator and artist. Kaya’s work on the Painted Path focuses on Downsview heritage, as told through the “3 Sisters” of corn, squash, and beans, the agricultural triad that has historically nourished Indigenous cultures across North America.