Anong Beam

Anong Migwans Beam is an artist, mother, and paint maker who lives and works in her home community of M'Chigeeng First Nation. In 2018, she founded Beam Paints, makers of plastic-free paints and watercolors inspired by her culture and pigment gathering of her youth. With our Indigenous paint tradition, we seek to celebrate the colours of the wide world with the intimacy of the northern forest. And in this fusion, create paint that makes you and your paintings feel vibrantly human. Plastic-free art supplies, non-toxic and Canadian made from the ground up.

As an artist, she paints primarily large format oil paintings. Raised by artist parents Ann and Carl Beam, she was homeschooled and apprenticed with her father in his ceramic, pigment and clay gathering, and his painting/photography studio.

She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ontario College of Art and Design, and the Institute of American Indian Art.

She has been active in language and community and is the founder of Gimaa Radio 88.9CHYF FM Ojibwe Language Radio station and also worked as the Executive Director/Curator for the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation from 2016-2018. Anong was an instructor at Harvard University 2023 SITSA.