Barry Ace is an Anishnaabe (Odawa) visual artist, writer, and educator who lives in Ottawa. A band member of M’Chigeeng First Nation in Manitoulin Island, his mixed media, assemblage, and textile works draw from various aspects of Anishnaabeg culture to explore cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary. Ace has exhibited his works in important international venues, including the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York, the Nordamerika Native Museum in Zurich, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.