Jessie Pruden is a Metis beader from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her fun and colourful designs are inspired by her friends, family, nature and her culture.

Jessie started beading in 2020, during quarantine. The loneliness of lockdown made her want to connect with family, so she ordered a beading kit from Cedarlilie Beads, and invested 12 hours every day for months practising using YouTube, and eventually reaching out to fellow beaders and family for help. She soon found an amazing beading community, and this new craft allowed her to connect to many new friends, and reconnect with old ones.

She now happily beads everyday with her brother, Noel, and her little half-chihuahua, half-pug, Bella (for moral support). Jessie pulls from many aspects of her life for inspiration. She identifies as a queer, disabled, Metis woman, and finds lots of colour and lights in those communities that she channels in her contemporary designs.