The National Football League commissioned Quentin Commanda, of Nipissing First Nation, to design a football that showcases his Anishinabek culture. The ball could be featured ahead of the Super Bowl. And 50 footballs with his design will be donated to Indigenous communities.
An Indigenous artist from Nipissing First Nation, in northeastern Ontario, is sharing his culture with a global audience, thanks to a partnership with the National Football League (NFL).
The league commissioned Quentin Commanda to decorate a football with art that showcases the culture of the Anishinabek people.
“They gave me complete creative control, which is really rare these days,” Commanda told CBC Radio.
“For this project, they just let me do what I wanted to. And they accepted the first design sketch that I submitted.”
Commanda has made a name for himself painting large murals, and he said it was fun to create a design for a smaller …